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It's been available for over a year
I downloaded it close to two years ago, if memory serves me. If all you need to do is look at GIS data, then it's fine. If you need to print, it's limited. And if you need to edit, you'll need some other tool (like Grass, perhaps?).
Another Reason to Speed Up Macs
As one who works for ESRI, I was saddened that they were not going to port ArcGIS to OSX or even UNIX. The faster the Mac gets over the PC, the more our users will start making noise about it and ESRI will listen. In the mean time, take a look at the following package.
Another Reason to Speed Up Macs
As an employee of ESRI maybe you could point us to the most efficient place to demand an OS X version of ArcGIS?
ESRI Contact
Sure...
ESRI Contact II
Make sure you make your case. Don't just say you want it because you want it. Tell them why you think it is important such as...
ESRI Contact II
Some more ideas:
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ESRI Contact II
All good points. Thanks everyone!
ESRI Contact II
I would also add that developing there app for Tiger they could take advantage of things like Core image, and a 64 bit OS and processor architecture. Additionally Apples development tools would probably speed there product to market.
Another Reason to Speed Up Macs
I'm doing a Master's degree in GIS and Remote Sensing which, for the GIS part, is pretty much all ArcGIS. And, while I'd love to do my school work on my Powerbook, asking ESRI for a Mac port is a bit of a double-edged sword. I really have no faith in their ability to develop a decent interface. So, I lust after and fear a Mac port. ArcGIS is such a beast that to do a decent Mac port would be a huge undertaking. My fear is that it would be a kludge. They'd probably do it in Java and make it exactly like the Windows versions are something similarly un-Mac like. Maybe I'm not giving them enough credit. Still, I would like to see a natively developed OS X GIS package. The Mac's historically good graphics processing and vectory goodness makes it seem a natural thing. I even saw a reference to "geospatial applications" on Apple's Tiger overview. That got me excited. I hope they're hinting at something. |
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