Legacy Tools
Before Wildlife and Forestry Tools for ArcGIS Pro there were two earlier generations of Jenness Enterprises tools, written for the two Esri programs that came before ArcGIS Pro. Both collections are still available for download, with their documentation, for anyone who still runs that software or wants to see where a tool came from. They are no longer developed; most of them have been rebuilt for ArcGIS Pro and improved along the way, and the Tool Reference is the place to find the current version of any of them.
ArcView 3.x
ArcView started as a better mapping interface for ArcInfo, then turned into a terrific and powerful GIS system all on its own. When it first appeared in 1991, Esri's flagship, ARC/INFO, was driven almost entirely from the command line, and making a map with its plotting module, ArcPlot, meant typing out every element of it. ArcView put a graphical interface in front of that data, and with ArcView GIS 3, released in October 1995, it became a full GIS in its own right, with its own scripting language, Avenue, and extensions such as Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst. The last version, 3.3, came out in May 2002. Esri replaced it with ArcGIS in 2000, but ArcView 3.x kept a devoted following and stayed in use for years afterward.
The ArcView 3.x extensions here are Avenue scripts packaged as .avx files. Among them are the original Surface Tools, Topographic Position Index, Alternate Animal Movement Routes, Repeating Shapes and Random Point Generator, the ancestors of tools in the current add-in.
ArcView 3.x extensions →
ArcMap
ArcMap was the main component of ArcGIS Desktop from the first ArcGIS release in 2000 until ArcGIS Pro took its place. It was a great step forward in many ways: a true geodatabase behind the maps, a unified toolbox for geoprocessing, editing and cartography in one program, and a programming interface, ArcObjects, deep enough that an extension could do almost anything the program itself could. Its last version, 10.8.2, was released in December 2021, and Esri ended support on March 1, 2026.
The ArcMap extensions here were written in Visual Basic 6 against ArcObjects; ArcMap supported .NET as well, but Jeff was more comfortable in VB6. They include the ArcMap versions of the Topographic Position Index, Surface Tools and Corridor Designer tools, along with graphing, sampling and cartographic utilities, most of which now live on in the ArcGIS Pro add-in.
ArcMap extensions →References
- Wikipedia. ArcMap. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcMap
- Wikipedia. ArcView 3.x. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcView_3.x