Top 8Cool New Things That Are “Nice to Haves”

8Customizable scale

7Enhanced Identification

6Flicker 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

5My Places Tool

4Terrain 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

3Customizable Full Extent tool

2Cartographic manipulation

• Rule-driven visualization AND cartographic clarity• 2 columns added to feature class table to store

overrides and representation rules

1Animations

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

included

Top 9Things Much Too Late

To the Party

9Enhanced and indexed

documentation

8Non-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

7Enhanced measure tool

6Go to X,Y tool

5PDF with toggle layers

4File 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

3Geodatabase

Transaction Archiving

2Personal SDE

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

1ArcGIS 9.2

Top 9Things I Will Use

Right Away (or as soon as it’s

available)

9CAD Enhancements

• Symbology• Georeferencing

8Online

“Customer Care Portal”• Incident tracking

7Support for ECW

raster format

6Easily calculate geometry

for a field

5ArcIMS Navigation tools– Seamless Pan, Dynamic Zoom, MapTips and

keyboard shortcuts

4Built in libraries with .NET• Web Application Development Framework (ADF)

3Direct read of

Microsoft Excel files

2Viewer Windows

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

1Improvements to Table

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