When digitizing, Arc does a decent job, you can trace lines, snap to Conversely, it’s muchĮasier to package files to send to people in MapInfo than in Arc. – if it can’t find the files, it won’t open. – if files are missing, it will still open the. Geodatabases to organize data into spatially referenced feature ArcGIS has Arc Catalog, where a userĬan view data, change projections of feature classes, and create a Minuses to this approach, as if you are disorganized MapInfo doesn’tĬare, If you are organized either system works great. The cavaet is that you need to know the projection of theĪrc is quite structured in its data requirements – MapInfo doesn’tĬare, it will take the data anyway you have it. It's easier to find people trained inĪrc allows only one projection in a window – MapInfo reprojects on theįly – this is great when working with several projections as is common Working with someone who has no experience, it’s much easier to get MapInfo, so while people may have the training in school, if I’m Training to use the program well, not the 2 day courses we offer for Grids in Arc, so that’s another add on at $2500, and the list goes on.Īrc is taught at the university level – and you do need advanced For example to add true editing capabilities to ArcGIS, To enableĪrcGIS to have the same capabilities you are talking in the $15K+
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Viewer, while MapInfo is a pretty full blown GIS system. The problem is that with ArcView (now called ArcGIS) you only get a The client is Vancouver based with offices in Mexico andĬonsultants living in the US, so some of this may not apply to theĮuropean or Australian readers. We were asked to do a similar comparison recently between the Arc/