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| GIS : ArcCatalog |
Geographic information exists in many forms, including relational databases, files, ArcGIS documents,
and remote GIS web services. ArcGIS applications work together to allow you to work with geographic
information and other ancillary data that exist in various data sources, including datasets, relational
databases, and many file types and schemas.
ArcCatalog helps GIS users by providing an integrated and unified view of all the data files, databases,
and ArcGIS documents available to ArcGIS users. Unlike other data (a photo or Word document), geographic
datasets often consist of a set of files, rather than a single file. When listed in Windows Explorer, the
datasets appear as a list of system folders and files, whereas ArcCatalog displays and manages the datasets
as single entities.
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| GIS : ArcExplorer |
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ArcExplorer is a free lightweight GIS data viewer written in Java that is used to perform basic
GIS functions (e.g., view, navigate, and query). It is a downloadable application that operates
in a stand-alone environment and does not need to connect to a server.
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| GIS : ArcGIS |
ArcGIS is the name of a group of geographic information system software product lines produced by ESRI.
Prior to the ArcGIS suite, ESRI had focused its software development on the command line Arc/INFO
workstation program and several Graphical User Interface-based products such as the ArcView GIS 3.x
desktop program. Other ESRI products included MapObjects, a programming library for developers, and
ArcSDE as a relational database management system. The various products had branched out into multiple
source trees and did not integrate well with one another. In January 1997, ESRI decided to revamp its
GIS software platform, creating a single integrated software architecture.
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| GIS : ArcGIS Engine Runtime |
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The final component of ArcGIS Engine is the ArcGIS Engine Runtime license and its extensions. All applications
built with the ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit require ArcGIS Engine Runtime, with the appropriate license, to
execute successfully. ArcGIS Engine Runtime is the platform on which ArcGIS Desktop is built; this allows users
of ArcGIS Desktop applications to execute custom applications based on ArcGIS Engine, if permitted by the ArcGIS
Engine application developer.
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| GIS : ArcGIS Server Manager |
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Web based app that allows you to create web map applications.
ArcGIS Server Manager also lets you create Web services that access the GIS server and provide GIS functionality to
other applications. You can create map, geocode, globe, geodata, geoprocessing, mobile data, network analysis,
OGC Web Mapping Services (WMS), and Keyhole Markup Language (KML) Web services.
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| GIS : ArcGIS Web ADF |
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Set of controls, tasks and Web applications. Used to create GIS applications. Includes ArcGIS Server Manager.
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| GIS : ArcIMS |
ArcIMS (standing for Arc Internet Map Server) is a Web Map Server produced by ESRI. It is a GIS that is
designed to serve maps across the Internet. Sometimes these maps are just static images allowing simple
panning and zooming, while others are more complex pages. Examples of interactive maps served with ArcIMS
include maps with layers that can be turned on and off, or with features containing attributes that can be
queried. A visitor to a site driven by ArcIMS needs nothing more than a web browser: the GIS and database are
maintained on the server side.
Using ArcIMS, city and local governments, businesses, and other organizations worldwide share geospatial
information both internally and to the public.
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| GIS : ArcMap |
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ArcMap is a component of ESRI's ArcGIS Geographical Information System (GIS). It is developed as client software
specifically for the Microsoft Windows environment, to enable more intuitive processing and presentation of ArcGIS data.
It does not currently contain as much functionality as its sister program ArcInfo.
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| GIS : ArcObjects |
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A library of software components that make up the
foundation of ArcGIS. ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, and ArcGIS Server are all
built using the ArcObjects libraries.
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| GIS : Flex |
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The ArcGIS API for Flex™ allows the creation of Rich Internet applications on top of ArcGIS Server. It
is integrated with Adobe Flex Builder 3 and can be downloaded for free. The Flex framework is a client-side
technology that is rendered by Flash Player 9 or Adobe AIR.
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| GIS : Geodatabase |
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The geodatabase provides the data storage and data management framework for ArcGIS. Each geodatabase
is a collection of various geographic datasets that reside in a file system folder, a Microsoft® Access™
database, or a relational database management system such as Oracle®, Microsoft® SQL Server®, PostgreSQL®,
Informix® or IBM® DB2.
A key geodatabase concept is the dataset. It is the primary mechanism used to
organize and use geographic information in ArcGIS. The geodatabase contains
three primary dataset types: Feature Classes, Raster Datasets, and Tables.
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| GIS : GeoServer |
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GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that
allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability,
it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.
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| GIS : Geographic Markup Language (GML) |
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A language used for defining, encoding and transporting geographic data via the
Internet. The syntax is based on XML and OGC simple feature specifications.
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| GIS : MapGuide |
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Autodesk MapGuide® 6.5 software helps you develop, manage, and distribute GIS and design
applications on the Internet or your intranet, broadening your access to mission-critical
geospatial and digital design data.
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| GIS : PostGIS |
PostGIS is an open source software program that adds support for geographic objects
to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. PostGIS follows the Simple Features for SQL
specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium.
There are a large number of software products that can use PostGIS as a database
backend, including GeoServer.
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| GIS : PostgreSQL |
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PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database system. It has more than 15 years of active development.
It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, Tru64),
and Windows.
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| GIS : Raster |
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Raster data provides a map image formed by a matrix of pixels arranged in rows columns, which can
be displayed on a computer screen. An example would be a digital photograph.
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| GIS : Shapefile |
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The ESRI Shapefile or simply a shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information
systems software. A "shapefile" commonly refers to a collection of files with ".shp", ".shx", ".dbf", and other
extensions on a common prefix name (e.g., "lakes.*"). Shapefiles are simple because they store primitive geometrical
data types of points, lines, and polygons.
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| GIS : TIGER |
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The U.S. Census Bureau is a great source for downloadable basemap data in shapefile format. Their data is
referred to as the TIGER database. It stands for Topologically Intgrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing.
It isn't a database in the traditional sense. The actual TIGER files are stored in a custom ASCII format.
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| GIS : Vector |
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One method of storing, representing or displaying spatial data in digital form. It consists of using coordinate
pairs (x,y) to represent locations on the earth. Features can take the form of single points, lines, arcs or closed
lines (polygons). Most work GIS Analysts do is based in vector data.
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