ArcGIS 9.2

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ArcGIS 9.2 will be a major release improving, enhancing and adding many capabilities to the platform. This release will also complete the migration of virtually all the features and functions that were available in the legacy systems and provide a much richer and open environment with many new methods and tools. Below are frequently asked questions about the ArcGIS 9.2 release.

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Interoperability and Standards

1. Is ESRI planning to improve the implementation of the FGDC metadata standard?

2. To what extent will ESRI support interoperability with Google Earth and KML?

3. How does ESRI support Geography Markup Language (GML)?

4. Where can I find a complete list of ESRI supported ISO and OGC standards?

5. Will ArcGIS 9.2 support WFS-T?

6. What is ESRI's commitment to support WFS natively in its client and server technology?

ArcGIS

1. When will ArcGIS 9.2 be released?

2. What were the main drivers for the ArcGIS 9.2 software development?

3. What are the new enhancements in ArcGIS 9.2?

4. Why should my organization migrate to ArcGIS 9.2?

5. Are there things in ArcGIS 9.2 that will cause me to change my workflow?

6. What are ESRI’s plans for documentation with ArcGIS 9.2 and going forward?

7. When will I be able to directly use my Excel spreadsheets in ArcGIS?

8. What is ESRI doing for high-end cartography?

9. Will ESRI provide an Internet 3D globe service as part of its product?

10. Will ArcGIS 9.2 include any tools for managing and using temporal data?

11. What are your plans for use of Python in the geoprocessing framework?

12. What is being done to improve the use of imagery and other raster data in ArcGIS?

13. Can you perform batch processing for geoprocessing at ArcGIS 9.2?

14. What enhancements have you made to interoperability at ArcGIS 9.2?

15. What is ESRI's strategy for providing data products?

ArcIMS

1. What improvements can I expect in ArcIMS 9.2?

2. What will the .NET enhancements in ArcIMS 9.2 mean to users?

3. What will the Java enhancements in ArcIMS 9.2 mean to users?

4. Will my ArcIMS 9.1 applications work in ArcIMS 9.2? Will it be easier to make custom ArcIMS sites in 9.2?

5. Will ArcIMS users be given an upgrade path to ArcGIS Server?

Developers

1. Will ESRI be migrating ArcObjects to .NET?

2. When will .NET 2.0 be supported?

3. Will custom commands implemented in .NET 1.1 code work be unchanged in .NET 2.0?

4. What is ESRI planning to do to enhance its support for Java developers?

5. How much is the ArcObjects API changing in ArcGIS 9.2?

6. Will any of the ArcGIS Engine controls be expanded (i.e., symbology dialogue)at ArcGIS 9.2?

7. Will ESRI continue to support Python in ArcGIS 9.2? What are the new enhancements and features?

8. Are there any changes in ArcGIS 9.2 in the way it works with enterprise products?

9. How long will VBA be supported in ArcGIS Desktop? Should I learn VBA for customizing ArcGIS?

10. What are the improvements to ArcGIS Engine at 9.2?

11. How can I easily integrate Ajax patterns into my existing ArcGIS Server Web application?

12. What development skills will I need for ArcGIS Server and ArcIMS at 9.2?

Geodatabase

1. What is the direction of ArcSDE?

2. Are there plans to provide an ESRI-supported tool, beyond the command line, to administer ArcSDE?

3. What is the future of the geodatabase?

4. What is the file geodatabase? How will I use it?

5. Is the file-based geodatabase open? Is there an API that allows other non-ESRI applications to access and program applications against it?

6. Am I going to be able to implement a large GIS repository using the file geodatabase?

7. How will the new high precision data storage in an ArcGIS 9.2 geodatabase affect my workflow?

8. Can you explain geodatabase replication?

9. Will ESRI provide a compressed and locked file structure for geodatabases?

10. How can I track changes to my geodatabase over time?

11. How does ESRI support integration with an Oracle DBMS?

12. Does ArcGIS Desktop work with Oracle Spatial technology? Are you adding new support at ArcGIS 9.2?

13. Will ArcGIS 9.2 support non-versioned transactions?

14. Managing an Oracle DBMS system is beyond the technical capabilities of my organization; we don’t have a DBA. Will ESRI’s technology force me to move in this direction?

15. Why has ESRI developed the spatial API for Oracle?

16. I currently use a manual process of batch loading images into ArcSDE (file by file). Will this change at ArcGIS 9.2?

17. What is ESRI doing to support Unicode?

CAD and GIS

1. What is new in ArcGIS 9.2 for supporting interoperabitly with CAD systems?

2. How can I georeference my CAD drawings to my GIS datasets?

Mobile GIS

1. What is ESRI's mobile strategy?

2. What is new in ArcPad?

3. How can I get lightweight GIS into the field or on a laptop for users that don't need full ArcView or ArcPad?

Raster and Imagery

1. How do you see the role of imagery in GIS products changing?

2. What is being done to improve the use of imagery and other raster data in ArcGIS 9.2?

3. What new raster formats will ESRI be supporting in ArcGIS 9.2?

4. Does ESRI support Oracle raster?

5. Will ArcGIS 9.2 support value attribute table (VAT)?

6. What is NetCDF, and why is it important?

7. Are there plans to support LIDAR data in ArcGIS 9.2?

8. What improvement are planned for ArcGIS support of imagery analysis?

9. When will ESRI support ECW raster image formats from ER Mapper?

10. What functionality is provided by ESRI Image Server? What is it used for?

ArcGIS Desktop

1. What innovations have been made in ArcMap?

2. Have you improved the productivity of ArcMap?

3. How can information created in ArcGIS Desktop be used in ArcGIS Server?

4. Will ESRI provide an Internet 3D globe service as part of its product?

5. Has geocoding been improved in ArcGIS 9.2?

6. Has ESRI made enhancements in ArcGIS 9.2 to simplify editing?

7. Does ESRI support the U.S. National Grid?

8. How is ESRI planning to improve support of metadata?

9. Will ArcGIS 9.2 support spatial relates using ModelBuilder?

10. How can I get faster zoom capability?

11. Will it become easier to generate animations?

12. Does ArcGIS 9.2 support JPEG 2000 compression?

13. Have there been improvements made to the export to PDF function?

14. What is ESRI doing in the area of redlining?

ArcGIS Server

1. What licensing options will be offered for ArcGIS 9.2 Server?

2. Can you make the ArcGIS Server product more affordable to smaller customers?

3. ArcGIS Server seems oriented to large integrated systems. Can it be used by small organizations or workgroups?

4. What is your plan to make ArcGIS Server easy to develop with and easy to implement?

5. What is ArcGIS Explorer, and how does it relate to ArcGIS 9.2?

6. What clients does ArcGIS Server support?

7. How can I get lightweight GIS into the field or on a laptop for users that don't need full ArcView or ArcPad?

ArcGIS Extensions

1. What is new in ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and ArcGIS 3D Analyst at 9.2?

2. Is the Viewshed tool better at ArcGIS 9.2?

3. What are the updates to ArcGIS Network Analyst at 9.2?

4. What are the enhancements to ArcReader and ArcGIS Publisher at 9.2?

5. What is new in ArcGIS Schematics at 9.2?

6. What is new in ArcGIS Data Interoperability at 9.2?

7. Can I use real time data feeds with ArcGIS?

8. What is the future direction of ArcGIS Survey Analyst?