GIS for Mac?
I remember when ArcView had a Mac version. It was ArcView 2, and it wasn't selling very well (the Mac version, that is). I did teach an ArcView course for Mac users once back then, and it exposed me, the Unix/DOS/Windows guy, to the cult that was, and still is, Apple Macintosh computer users.
I was a Windows snob and didn't take Mac users very seriously. How could I? Macs were glorified Fisher-Price activity centers for adults, weren't they? Apparently ESRI had similar feelings, because they dropped the Mac version of ArcView at release 3 (I think). At about the same time Autodesk dropped the Mac version of Autocad.
My good friend Ivo, a Mac convert himself, has been trying to get me to switch for quite some time. Given that the tools of my trade (ArcGIS) are currently only available for Windows, a switch is out of the question. But had there been an ArcGIS version for Mac, or an equivalent AJAX-y web application, I might seriously consider a switch.
Would you?




this perhaps?
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/9341
Thanks!
Another avenue (also suggested by Ivo) is the Parallels Desktop for Mac, here: http://www.parallels.com/
Anybody willing to share any experience, good or bad?
I'm actually using ArcGIS on Mac OS X, with a little help of Parallels and Boot Camp: http://spanring.eu/blog/2006/07/02/arcgis-on-mac-os-x-2/
Interest for GIS on Mac OS X is growing...
Great! Thanks a lot!
Hi,
you can use TNTmips:
http://www.microimages.com/mac.htm
There is a lite version that you can use to make a test.
regards,
a
Great, thanks for the link!
GIS for Mac is a wonderful idea! I was raised on macintoshes, starting when my father brought home a 'fat' mac when I was about 6 - 512K baby!
I use VMWare on my MacBook. ArcGIS 9.2 runs really well. I've also got a Linux virtual machine, meaning I have full compatibility with Mac, Windows, and Linux software on one laptop.
Have similar interests, wouldn't mind using a Mac (look pretty, good graphics, I can finally relate to fake Steve Jobs and all the other normal reasons) but ARC GIS is my bread and butter, I found this posting that may be of interest, it is still not ARC GIS for Mac but a how to run ARC GIS on a Mac; I heard that Microsoft invested in ESRI a while back which is probably why it doesn't work on Mac directly.
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/2006/07/arcgis-on-mac-os-x-with-intel-chip.html
To me Macs are over priced PCs. I see no difference. Plus I really hate Apples control phreak attitude with all there products.
I have been called a "Mac hater" countless times, merely for expressing (quite civilly, may I add) my opinions about Mac and the Mac culture.
Not to mention that if you use a PC, you are a G.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/watchtheads/video/giampaolo/