Used for map display and query as well as for performing many sophisticated spatial operations such as pathfinding, dynamic segmentation, surface analysis, and spatial selection. Unified Printing Tin Used for Surface Modeling and Display Librarian Organizes Spatial Data ArcView ArcView is the software used by the County's desktop GIS users. ArcView's programming language and development environment, known as Avenue, is used to write custom user applications. MapObjects MapObjects is ESRI's collection of GIS and mapping components for application developers. It provides mapping and GIS tools for display, query and analysis of dynamic map data.
Users can display data using classifications, graduated symbols, labels, and dot density mapping.
The GIS staff is in the process of analyzing and implementing MapObjects as an application development tool, since it uses industry standard programming environments such as Visual Basic and Delphi to build data viewing applications. It will provide for rapid customized application development to support the various GIS users within the county. The Gis Activity has chosen to use Microsoft's Visual Basic as its development tool with MapObjects because it provides one of the fastest and easiest means of creating Windows-based applications. In this manner, an item such as a pull-down list may be simply dragged onto the user interface, while the programmer need only worry about putting values in that list. ArcExplorer ArcExplorer is a lightweight desktop GIS data viewing tool developed by ESRI using MapObjects.