Product Overview

Many Capabilities

As a complete data explorer, ArcExplorer lets you display and query a wide variety of standard data sources. Using ArcExplorer as a stand-alone desktop application, you can consume industry-standard ESRI shapefiles, ArcInfo coverages, a variety of images, Spatial Database Engine layers, and more.

ArcExplorer allows you to also pan and zoom through these map layers and identify, locate, and query their spatial and attribute information. You can buffer a selected set of features and view their attributes.

ArcExplorer also provides the ability to thematically map your data, symbolizing various features based upon information found in the data's attribute table, displaying graduated symbology, or classbreaks rendering for instance.

A Lightweight, Free Publisher

ArcExplorer is a GIS data viewer as well as an excellent vehicle for publishing your data. You can re-distribute the ArcExplorer software and your data to your users, who can then install ArcExplorer on their machines and view your data easily and effectively. And best of all, ESRI does not charge any fees for you to distribute ArcExplorer with your data. Once you have created your aesthetically-pleasing map, you can save your application as a project file.

Intuitive User Interface

ArcExplorer comes with a straightforward user interface that includes an intuitive menu bar and tool bars. With these, you can easily add layers from existing data sources, control characteristics, print your maps, zoom in/out, pan, identify map features, and display Map Tips. (Map Tips are dynamic pop-up dialog boxes, associated with your cursor location, that allow you to view the data associated with a feature on your map.)

Different Versions of ArcExplorer

There are several different versions of ArcExplorer. You will want to examine the features of each in order to best satisfy your functionality and operating system requirements.