ArcExplorer® is a powerful learning tool. Currently this tutorial uses ArcExplorer2®, but we are working on updating it soon to use ArcExplorer9®. Once you have completed this tutorial, you should find ArcExplorer9® quite friendly and familiar. Click here to go to ESRI's website and learn more about Arcexplorer®.
When you are ready to move up to a "full-blown" GIS, I recommend Caliper's Maptitude® GIS. I use it for all of my work and have found it to be very powerful, very inexpensive compared to the competition, easy to use and it includes a large bundle of free data. It also handles the ArcView®/ArcExplorer® shapefile format and almost every other digital format very well.
If you have any comments, problems, questions, need help or need custom map layers, I would love to hear from you. Please email me at mike@learn2map.com. I look forward to hearing from you.
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ArcExplorer® is a powerful learning tool. Currently this tutorial uses ArcExplorer2®, but we are working on updating it soon to use ArcExplorer9®. Once you have completed this tutorial, you should find ArcExplorer9® quite friendly and familiar. 
