ArcPad allows GIS users to capture, edit, analyze, and display geographic data via mobile devices.

In a typical scenario, a user checks out data from ArcGIS Desktop onto a mobile device, takes the device to a location in the field and updates or corrects the data, and then returns to the desktop computer and checks the data back in. However, ArcPad can also be used independently of ArcGIS Desktop.

This donation from Esri includes ArcPad for one user.

Here are some notable features of this product:

• ArcPad can store data from GPS receivers, range finders, and integrated digital cameras.
• ArcPad supports ArcGIS symbology and style sheets for high-quality mapping on mobile devices.
• The software includes the StreetMap extension, which includes data derived from the Tele Atlas dataset and enables address geocoding and routing.
• The user interface is available in a number of languages.
• Working with ArcPad is a free online training course available to anyone on the Esri website. It teaches the basic skills necessary for using ArcPad and takes about three hours to complete.

More details and links to case studies can be found on the Esri website to help in evaluating whether this product is what is needed.

Free Add-ons

The ArcScripts website contains thousands of free user-created extensions, tools, and add-ons for any Esri product.

Single-User Version

This license is for a single-user version. Organizations that already own concurrent-user versions of any Esri software will not be able to use the product offered here with their concurrent-user version. Further, on a given computer, no single-user product can be used at the same time as any concurrent-user product.

This product must be installed and activated on only one computer.

Support and Maintenance

Esri will provide one year of product support and maintenance to recipients of this donation. In addition to telephone and online support, maintenance includes new software releases, service packs, patches, and hot fixes.

Before this year of free software maintenance and support expires, Esri will send a quotation for continuing software maintenance for the following year. Organizations have the option of purchasing the software maintenance from Esri, terminating the maintenance agreement and using the product without support, or applying to the Esri Conservation Program for a maintenance grant at http://www.conservationgis.org/grant/maintenancegrants.html. If the agreement is terminated and later reinstated, the organization will be billed for the lapsed maintenance period and the new annual maintenance period.

Choose Carefully

The administrative fee for this product is not refundable, and the product cannot be exchanged.

Obtaining This Product

Expect two emails. When your donation request has been approved, TechSoup will send a message to your organization email address with preliminary information about obtaining this product. Shortly after, the donor partner will send an email with information needed to complete the installation or activation.

• Hardware:
• ARM-based processors, including Intel (StrongARM, XScale), Samsung, Texas Instruments (OMAP), Atmel
• 64 MB RAM
• 11 MB available hard-disk space plus 9 MB for ArcPad StreetMap and up to 24 MB for sample data, tables, and language packs
• Software:
• Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0/6.1
• Software for desktop computers:
• Microsoft XML (MSXML) Parser MSXML 4.0 with SP2
• For Windows XP — Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 or higher
• For Windows Vista or Windows 7 — Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1
• To use the ArcPad Data Manager Extension for ArcGIS Desktop — ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo 9.3 or higher
• Other:
• The capacity to download several gigabytes of data

• Donated product will be distributed under this program to qualifying organizations only, not to individuals.
• Two donations of ArcView and ArcPad and any number of donations of other Esri products may be requested within a fiscal year (July 1 to June 30). These requests need not be made at the same time.
• This donation is available to nonprofits with 501(c)(3) designation and public libraries. Public libraries must either have valid 501(c)(3) nonprofit status or be listed in the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) database.
• Organizations requesting any Esri product other than ArcView must already have and use a single-user version of ArcView or ArcEditor or request ArcView at the same time.
• Recipient organizations must be willing and able to provide information to Esri for the purposes of creating a case study or testimonial on this program.
• Organizations that advocate, support, or practice discrimination based on age, ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability, race, size, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background are not eligible to participate in this program. Organizations must be willing and able to attest that they do not discriminate on any of these grounds in order to receive donations.
• Esri products may not be transferred, assigned, or resold.