Some GIS users believe that ArcView 3.x can perform some GIS tasks better than its ArcGIS ArcView counterpart. The third reason provided by ArcView 3.x users is functionality. Seems you lose a lot of graphics (text, etc.) when converting layouts, and since we don’t use the maps that often it just doesn’t seem worth the time to convert them to AG and then have to spruce them all up again so I just fire up AV when we need an ‘old’ map.”
Diana McCarthy, GIS Specialist with the City of Fullerton in California says, “ We’ve got a lot of older maps that we don’t use very often. Some GIS shops have literally hundreds or thousands of project files that may be accessed only once in a while.
The conversion to ArcMap often isn’t worth the effort to convert a map from ArcView that isn’t used very often. Todd Zagurksi adds, “ the wide complement of scripts developed over the years, 3.x offers the ability to perform (a narrowing gap of) tasks that have yet to be written/developed in 9.x.” Mike Jenkins, a GIS Analyst with the City of Lakewood in California reports, “ We still use ArcView 3.3 for legacy projects that we haven’t converted yet (typically ones with A LOT of hand-laid graphics/annotation).” The need to convert extensive customization in ArcView 3.x to ArcGIS can be delayed due to a lack of time or resources. Many GIS shops have been around for a while and still have legacy ArcView project (.apr) files containing customized Avenue scripting or labeling. Diane Besser works with the Community Geography Project at Portland State University in Oregon and says, “ Schools and non-profits cannot afford ArcGIS – often ArcView can be obtained at minimum to no cost – and, additionally, most do not have the technical infrastructure anyway to support ArcGIS.” With a lower entry cost of purchase and no annual maintenance fee, some shops prefer to stick with ArcView 3. The continued use of ArcView 3.x can be distilled down into four reasons.
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The ease of use, the cheaper price, and (at least initially) the availability of the software on Windows instead of UNIX (as was the case until the mid-1990s for ArcInfo) made ArcView a popular choice for entry into the GIS world.Įven though the last version of ArcView (3.3) was released over six years ago, (ArcView 3.x is now in mature support by ESRI with no retirement date released) ArcView 3.x (as it’s known to distinguish it from ArcGIS ArcView) still remains a popular program among some GIS users.
ArcView, over time and through the add functionality of extensions, developed into a program that was capable of more complex spatial analysis and mapping. ArcInfo, at the time, was a predominately command line driven application that was not user friendly, especially for the casual user of GIS. The original ArcView was introduced in the early 1990s as a graphical interface to view geographic data. Despite the introduction of the ArcGIS platform at the 2000 ESRI International User Conference, some GIS shops either partially or exclusively still use ArcView 3.x as a means by which to do GIS.
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