A one year license for the Student Edition of ArcGIS Desktop: ArcMap is available to all members of the CSUMB community for installation of the software on their own personal computers. ArcGIS Pro is available as well. ArcGIS runs in the Windows OS, but can also be run on a Macintosh or iOS device by a variety of means. ArcGIS for Desktop has been developed for Windows Operating systems, but there are many users out there running ArcGIS Desktop on Macs. Two options are available. The user can install Windows in Boot Camp, a native feature of the Apple Inc.’s OS X operating system, or they can use a virtualization program, such as Parallels or VMWare Fusion. ArcGIS is a powerful leader in the Windows software sphere for creating maps, web applications, 3D, and data-driven collection maps based on geographic information systems of the world. John has brought the Windows exclusive application ArcGIS to the Mac.
Developer(s) | Esri |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | Windows |
Type | GIS software |
License | Proprietary |
Website | desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/ |
To use ArcGIS Pro on a Mac, a contemporary Mac (MacBook Pro, iMac, or Mac Pro) with a quad-core Intel processor, 256 GB storage, and 8 GB RAM or better is required. Run ArcGIS Pro natively on a Windows partition (Boot Camp) Boot Camp allows you to install Windows within a dedicated hard disk partition on your Mac.
Arcgis On Macbook Pro
ArcMap is the main component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs, and is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data. ArcMap allows the user to explore data within a data set, symbolize features accordingly, and create maps. This is done through two distinct sections of the program, the table of contents and the data frame. In October 2020, it was announced that there are no plans to release 10.9 in 2021,[2] and that ArcMap would no longer be supported after March 1, 2026. Esri are encouraging their users to transition to ArcGIS Pro.
Functionality[edit]
ArcMap users can create and manipulate data sets to include a variety of information. For example, the maps produced in ArcMap generally include features such as north arrows, scale bars, titles, legends, neat lines, etc. The software package includes a style-set of these features. As well as the ability to upload numerous other reference styles to apply to any mapping function.
The ArcGIS suite is available at four license levels: Basic, Standard, or Advanced (formerly ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo), and Pro. Each step up in the license provides the user with more extensions that allow a variety of querying to be performed on a data set. Pro is the highest level of licensing, and allows the user to use such extensions as 3D Analyst, Spatial Analyst, and the Geostatistical Analyst as well as numerous new functionalities at each new release.
Layout[edit]
The layout of ArcMap may seem overwhelming at first glance, but when a second look is taken what is seen is two distinct sections of ArcMap. The data frame where information is spatial and the table of contents where data is aligned in terms of importance symbology is changed.
Data frame[edit]
The section of ArcMap where data is spatially applied from the table of contents. The data comes in feature, rasters, and layers. While working in the spatial sector of the data, ground units (miles, kilometers, feet, meters, etc...) are used and represented in the coordinate system defined. This is where the views can be changed between Layout and Data View. The data will be ordered according to the order in the Table of Contents.
The user can create multiple data frames within one table of contents. The data frame while in that view will only view a single data frame at a time.
Table of Contents[edit]
The table of contents is the way that ArcMap represents what data is available to put into the data frame and how each layer is symbolized. The normal way to organize the layers is from top to bottom. With the base map elements such as a street map or DEM listed at the bottom the thematic map layers can be placed above to convey the message the map is being designed for. [3]
Other forms to view the table of contents include listing layers by source; visibility; and selection. The most basic form is to stay with drawing order as described above.
Views[edit]
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Views are put into place to allow a user to choose between either data view or the layout view. To choose between these views there are two buttons in the bottom left of the data frame to choose from. Navigating through the menus is another option, View > Layout View or View > Data View.[4]
Layout[edit]
The purpose of layout view is for the final design of a map. This is the view where the placement of the essential map elements are inserted, such as the north arrow, scale bar, etc. While in this view the user also has control of the data frame just as they would in the Data View, but is mainly concerned with the page space and formatting of spacing. [5] If multiple Data Frames are used they can be combined while in the layout view to fit onto one single page.
Data View[edit]
This is the geographic view of the data a user imports. The user can explore, display, and query data and edit files if the correct extensions are owned. The bulk of geographic processing will happen while in this view, such as symbology, import of data, editing, coordinate system definition. Only one Data Frame can be viewed at a time while in this view.
File types[edit]
ArcMap is run using primarily Shape Files and in more recent versions Geodatabases can be used to store larger sets of data. These file formats are what are uploaded into the program to view spatial data. Users can also upload .dbf or database files to link important attribute information to spatial data. Comma separated values (.csv) can be used, as long as they are converted to a .dbf before upload into the program.
When a map is saved a new file extension is created (.mxd). This file does not save the layers or spatial data with it, only the relative pathnames. What this means is if the data used in the map is not in the same location as the previous time it was opened there will be an error. This assists with keeping the file small and reduces the amount of redundancy in data management.
Printing[edit]
There are three main printing techniques and one multipage technique. The multipage technique can be found in a help page on ESRIs website.
- In layout view after completing all desired formatting saving the layout view as a .pdf then printing form there will reduce the amount of possible miscommunication within the computer. Keeping what the user did exactly what they get when they print.
- While in data view for the user to zoom to their desired extent then go to File > Print
- In layout view after completing all desired formatting moving directly to File > Print will print out the specified layout.
Extensions[edit]
Temporal Analyst[edit]
Temporal Analyst is an extension for storage, management, processing, plotting and analysis of virtually any time-related data inside ArcGIS application and was developed by DHI. Temporal Analyst tool for GIS brings time series data management directly into ArcGIS and provides fully dynamic data handling, modeling and monitoring.
Versions[edit]
Version | Released |
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8.0 | 12-27-1999[6] |
8.0.1 | 01-13-2000[7] |
8.1 | 05-01-2001[8] |
8.2 | 05-10-2002[9] |
8.3 | 02-10-2003[10] |
9.0 | 05-11-2004[11] |
9.1 | 05-25-2005[12] |
9.2 | 11-14-2006[13] |
9.3 | 06-25-2008[14] |
9.3.1 | 04-28-2009[15] |
10.0 | 06-29-2010[16] |
10.1 | 06-11-2012[17] |
10.2 | 07-30-2013[18] |
10.2.1 | 02-10-2014[19] |
10.2.2 | 02-27-2014[20] |
10.3 | 12-10-2014[21] |
10.3.1 | 05-13-2015[22] |
10.4 | 02-18-2016[23] |
10.5 | 12-15-2016[24] |
10.5.1 | 6-29-2017[25] |
10.6.0 | 1-17-2018[26] |
10.7.0 | 3-2019[27] |
10.8.0 | 2-2020[28] |
External links[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^'Press Release -- ESRI's ArcInfo 8 GIS Software Ships to Users Worldwide'. 2000-03-04. Archived from the original on March 4, 2000. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
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- ^'Press Release -- ESRI Announces ArcGIS 9.2 Is Now Shipping'. 2006-11-17. Archived from the original on November 17, 2006. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ^'Press Release -- ArcGIS 9.3 Improves Your Entire GIS Workflow'. 2008-06-30. Archived from the original on June 30, 2008. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
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- ^'ArcGIS 10.4 is here! | ArcGIS Blog'. blogs.esri.com. Retrieved 2016-05-26.
- ^'ArcGIS 10.5: New Release Transforms Enterprise GIS | ArcGIS Blog'. blogs.esri.com. Retrieved 2016-12-23.
- ^'What's New in ArcMap 10.5.1 | ArcGIS Blog'. blogs.esri.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
- ^'What's New in ArcMap 10.6 | ArcGIS Blog'. blogs.esri.com. Retrieved 2018-03-28.
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To run ArcGIS 10.x on an Apple Macintosh computer, the Mac must be set up to run Windows. There are severals ways to do this, but they require one of two installation options.
Option One: Create a dual-boot setup on your Mac, which allows you to boot into either Mac OS or Windows OS. The typical method for this is to use the free software BootCamp.
The following Mac models will support the 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home or Pro edition installed with Boot Camp:
- MacBook Pro (2012 and later)
- MacBook Air (2012 and later)
- MacBook (2015 and later)
- iMac Pro (2017)
- iMac (2012 and later)*
- Mac mini (2012 and later)
- Mac mini Server (Late 2012)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013)
You will need enough free disk space to create a Boot Camp disk partition with a minimum size of 64GB. 128GB is recommended for the best experience.
Using BootCamp: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Option Two: Create a virtual machine on your Mac, which allows you to run an installation of Windows OS in parallel with your existing Mac OS, and to switch from one to the other without booting into either one separately. Typical choices for the virtualization option are the licensed software Parallels or VMware. This option requires more resources (RAM & CPU) to run both OSes at the same time, as well as plenty of hard drive space (see the virtual machine options below for details).
Using Parallels: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/
Using VMware: http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
The ESRI GeoNet Forum has more information on these options (search for 'mac'). When configuring Windows with any of these options, it is important the configuration meets the minimum system requirements for installing ArcGIS.
Keep in mind that ESRI does NOT support ArcGIS for Mac, and that you can only use ArcGIS within one of the Windows OS installation options described above.