What's New in ArcGIS 10
ArcGIS 10 is a major release that dramatically transforms how people use and apply GIS.
Regardless of whether you are using ArcGIS in a desktop, mobile or server environment, the new enhancements will improve how geographic information is leveraged throughout your enterprise.
View demo videos and common questions.
Increased Productivity
- Search by keywords or data types to find data, symbols, and maps quickly.
- Browse and add data directly from Catalog window in ArcMap.
- Simplify map creation and production with streamlined sketch-based Desktop (2D/3D) and Web editing. (View a video demo.)
- Automate map production with Python and map books. (View a video demo.)
- Save time through faster display, smoother navigation, and the ability to run geoprocessing in the background.
Powerful Spatial Analysis
- Automate common tasks and analyses with Python scripting. (View a video demo.)
- Combine ArcGIS with other scientific programming to reveal powerful answers in your data.
- Take advantage of new analysis tools such as fuzzy overlay and location/allocation.
- Create, manage, and visualize time-aware data for more in-depth analysis.
- Perform in 3D virtually everything you can do in a 2D environment: modeling, editing, visualization, and analysis. (View a video demo.)
Improved Access to Imagery
- Use and manage imagery more efficiently on the desktop and on the server.
- Experience faster performance with accelerated image display.
- Save time by using the image analysis window for image interpretation and processing.
- Easily manage massive image collections with dynamic mosaicking and on-the-fly processing.
- Efficiently serve dynamic image mosaics to many applications.
View a video demo about the imagery improvements in ArcGIS 10.
New Ways to Share
- Increase collaboration via tight integration with ArcGIS Online search and share capabilities.
- Easily create and distribute projects that may include data, layers, maps, tools, scenes, globes, diagrams, and add-ins.
- Discover and organize geographic data throughout the enterprise via the new Search service in ArcGIS for Server.
- Enable feature-level editing via Web applications.
Cloud GIS
- Use online maps and tools that are a built-in part of ArcGIS, whether you're using ArcGIS for Desktop, a mobile device, a browser, or if you're developing applications using the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs.
- Find, share, organize, and use maps, apps, and other resources via ArcGIS.com—a Web-based gateway into the ArcGIS system.
- Discover, share, and present geographic information using ArcGIS Explorer Online, a new browser-based version of ArcGIS Explorer.
- Use ArcGIS for Server on the Amazon cloud (view a video).
Expanded GIS in the Field
- Extend mobile projects to tablet-based PCs using the ArcGIS for Mobile customizable, ready to deploy application (view a video demonstration).
- Simplify ArcGIS for Mobile deployments using the new Mobile Project Center.
- Leverage streaming GPS, photo attachments, and location tracking.
- Access a new iPhone mapping application directly from the Apple iTunes App Store.
- Build your own iPhone applications using the ArcGIS API for iPhone.
More Flexible Deployment
- Easily install and manage ArcGIS for Desktop licenses.
- Borrow ArcGIS for Desktop 10 licenses for temporary use away from the office (e.g., field units, work from home, business travel).
- Leverage GIS everywhere: via Web-extended desktops, Web-hosted applications, and cloud GIS.
- Extend ArcGIS use through flexible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) hosting capabilities. (View a video demo about ArcGIS for Server in the Amazon cloud.)
Learn What's Coming in 10.1
