ArcView is the world's most popular desktop GIS and mapping software, with more than 500,000 copies in use worldwide. ArcView provides data visualization, query, analysis, and integration capabilities along with the ability to create and edit geographic data.

ArcView 8.x maintains the base functionality of ArcView 3.x and adds a host of improvements driven by user requests. New features include a catalog for browsing and managing data, on-the-fly coordinate and datum projection, metadata creation, customization with built-in VBA, new editor tools, support for static annotation, enhanced cartographic tools, direct access to Internet data, and much more

ArcView 8.x is an exceptional stand-alone GIS as well as the entry point to ArcGIS, an integrated and scalable family of GIS software products. ArcGIS consists of ArcView, ArcEditor, ArcInfo, ArcIMS, and ArcSDE. ArcGIS extends ArcView by providing multi-user editing, advanced analysis, Internet services, and high performance spatial database services