How Did ArcView GIS Perform?
Overall, ArcView GIS performed very well. Its Graphical User Interface (GUI) made it possible to perform this extensive analysis, including researching the data, in just a month. Most data sets were delivered to us as county-based tables. It was easy to bring this information into ArcView using its “Join” button and append the data to the county shapefile delivered with ArcView. ArcView could become even more functional if some of its Avenue functionality is exposed to the end user. For example, ArcView supports: – Buffering, or – The reordering of records on hard disk, or – Intersecting themes. But in ArcView 3.0a, this functionality is only available to programmers using Avenue. When a project has to be delivered quickly, this becomes an important obstacle. We would also like to see a TIGER conversion extension included with the software. We used the sample Projector extension often to project data sources in a common geographic reference system. The ArcView project file (.apr) creat
