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August 2010

Support Now Available for ArcGIS Online Map Services and a New QuickCapture Toolbar

Manage Data Faster and Easier with ArcPad 10

By Jennifer Jacob, Esri Product Marketing

This year marks the tenth anniversary of ArcPad, a mobile geographic information system (GIS) software application that was developed to help field-workers collect and map data.

  Maps from ArcGIS Online can be accessed and used in your ArcPad 10 projects
Maps from ArcGIS Online can be accessed and used in your ArcPad 10 projects.
  Use QuickCapture to automatically build tools and forms you need to edit your data
Use QuickCapture to automatically build tools and forms you need to edit your data.

ArcPad was originally called MapPad and had approximately 200 users in both Australia and the United States. Today it is the most widely adopted mobile GIS handheld software product used around the globe with over 300,000 users. This summer's release of ArcPad 10 is packed with more capabilities than ever before.

ArcPad 10 greatly improves field productivity, helps you manage your GIS projects more efficiently, and provides a better user experience. Here's what to expect with the new release:

ArcPad includes advanced tools for finding, creating, and updating GIS information. ArcGIS Desktop provides checkout and check-in management of ArcPad data and maps, while the ArcGIS Server ArcPad extension can be used to synchronize edits with the enterprise geodatabase directly from the field.

ArcPad Studio, which was included in core ArcPad software at version 8, is the development framework to create projects tailored to an organization's specific workflow. You can take advantage of industry-specific templates, applets, and add-ins in ArcPad Studio to build custom applications.

More Information

To learn more about what's new in ArcPad 10 or evaluate ArcPad, visit www.esri.com/arcpad.

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