Find below what it is mentioned in the sub-section titled as “ What is the future of the ArcGIS Desktop technology?” It is worth it to spend some time and read the Esri User Conference 2018 Q&A ( check here). While Esri has moved most of its development efforts to ArcGIS Pro, ESRI will continue to provide support and minor bug fixes in ArcMap for a long time (you can find the ArcMap Product Life Cycle on the Esri website).
#ARCMAP VS ARCGIS PRO PRO#
There are still some capabilities of ArcMap that are not yet in ArcGIS Pro, so some ArcGIS Desktop users will be using both ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap till Pro has everything you need to fully support your work. ESRI will continue to support and maintain ArcMap. The most important comment I believe is that according to ESRI documentation, ArcGIS Pro will eventually replace ArcMap. There is a big discussion around this for the last 2-3 years, so I will try to give a comparison matrix to be very fast and straightforward. If you're an ArcMap user who wants to migrate to ArcGIS Pro, try Migrate from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro.In this post I will compare the two ArcGIS Desktop applications: ArcMap & ArcGIS Pro.To learn about the advanced analysis capabilities of ArcGIS Pro, try Estimate Solar Power Potential.
To learn more about the capabilities of ArcGIS Pro, see the following Learn ArcGIS lessons: This lesson was an introduction to ArcGIS Pro and covered only the basics of topics such as mapmaking and analysis. Then, you created a layout and exported the map to an image file. You changed the way the map looked and analyzed the distance between tourist attractions and rail stations. You created a project, navigated to the area of interest, and added data. In this lesson, you created a map that showed popular tourist attractions in downtown Singapore. The layout is exported to the location you chose. You'll use this tool to determine the closest rail station to each tourist attraction. You'll use the Spatial Join tool, which combines information from two feature classes based on their spatial relationship. In ArcGIS Pro, there are hundreds of geoprocessing tools, encompassing a wide variety of operations. Measuring the distance between each tourist attraction and rail station one by one would take a lot of time, so you'll automate the process by running a geoprocessing tool.Ī geoprocessing tool performs an operation on a dataset. The tourism agency wants its brochure to indicate the closest rail station to each tourist attraction.