Top 8 Cool New Things That Are

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Top 8Cool New Things That Are Nice to Haves
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• Customizable scale

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• Enhanced Identification

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• Flicker Command
• Facilitates change detection and data comparison
  by flickering a chosen layer back and forth at
  a specified time interval
• Located in the Effects toolbar

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• My Places Tool

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• Terrain Dataset
• Massive point datasets generated as a TIN
  (measurements stored as feature classes within a
  feature dataset)
• Usable in ArcCatalog, ArcMap, ArcGlobe and
• ArcGIS Server
• 3D Analyst required to define and edit terrains

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• Customizable
• Full Extent tool

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• Cartographic manipulation
• Rule-driven visualization AND cartographic
  clarity
• 2 columns added to feature class table to store
  overrides and representation rules

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• Animations
• Tools available in ArcMap 9.2
• Easily create, play back and export
• Time-based and graphical animations included

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Top 9Things Much Too Late To the Party
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• Enhanced and indexed documentation

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• Non-versioned editing
• Direct editing of simple feature classes
• Single edit session
• Edits saved to object base table, no delta tables
• Undo/redo capability not available

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• Enhanced measure tool

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• Go to X,Y tool

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• PDF with toggle layers

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• File Geodatabase
• Alternative to personal geodatabase
• Single user geodatabase format, single user
  editing
• Better performance than Access and no overall
  size limit of 2GB
• 50-75 reduction in size
• Different locking model

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• Geodatabase
• Transaction Archiving

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• Personal SDE
• SQL Server 2005 Express
• Included with ArcGIS Desktop
• 1 Editor, 3 concurrent users
• Intranet network application

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• ArcGIS 9.2

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Top 9Things I Will Use Right Away (or as soon
as its available)
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• CAD Enhancements
• Symbology
• Georeferencing

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• Online
• Customer Care Portal
• Incident tracking

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• Support for ECW
• raster format

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• Easily calculate geometry
• for a field

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• ArcIMS Navigation tools
• Seamless Pan, Dynamic Zoom, MapTips and
• keyboard shortcuts

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• Built in libraries with .NET
• Web Application Development Framework (ADF)

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• Direct read of
• Microsoft Excel files

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• Viewer Windows
• View and work with data at multiple scales
• No limit to number you can create

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• Improvements to Table Window
• Text Wrap
• Turning fields on/off
• Control row height
• Navigating to features with right click