Key Features

ArcEditor includes all the functionality of ArcView and adds a comprehensive set of tools to create, edit, and ensure the quality of your data within a multiuser editing environment.

Depending on what features you need, you can choose from three license levels of ArcGIS Desktop (ArcInfo, ArcEditor, and ArcView). The ArcGIS Desktop products share the same applications (ArcMap and ArcCatalog), user interface, and development environment. Additional functionality is unlocked as users move from ArcView to ArcEditor to ArcInfo.

Multiuser Editing and Versioning

Your organization can use ArcEditor to allow multiple users to simultaneously modify the same data without interfering with each other, taking the data offline, or creating multiple copies of your data.

Monitor how the database has evolved over time, edit in the field with disconnected editing, and implement QA procedures for validating edits.

Learn more [WMV] about how versioning can support multiple workflows and manage work order processing within your geodatabase.

Rules-Based Topology

Preserve data integrity and maintain the high quality of your data by automatically locating and fixing errors according to rules and behaviors you set for your geodatabase.

Learn more [WMV] about what a geodatabase is and how to use topology rules to maintain spatial relationships between features in your geodatabase.

Advanced Editing and Productivity Tools

Use advanced COGO editing tools, construction tools, and conflict detection and resolution tools to help automate the editing workflow.

Store historical snapshots of your data and different views of map layers that represent what-if scenarios without affecting the layers they are built on.

Speed up data maintenance and automation with CAD-like editing and productivity tools.

Learn how [WMV] the ArcEditor CAD-like editing and productivity tools can speed up data maintenance and automation.

Enabled for Extensions

Add even more capabilities and extend the power of ArcEditor by using one or more of the many optional ArcGIS Desktop extensions. Analysis-, productivity-, and solution-based extensions allow you to perform extended tasks such as raster geoprocessing and three-dimensional analysis.

Download a more detailed comparison [PDF] of the ArcGIS Desktop product key features.