About a year ago ESRI canned BusinessMap. I have not been able to find a suitable replacement. ESRI calimed that they faced competition from online mapping and that Business Analyist Online BAO was the fix, but it doesn't do the same things as BusinessMap.
I have my BA in Geography/GIS and I am really familiar with ArcGIS Desktop, which is really robust, but it is not tailored to Small Business users, not to mention it cost over four times more than BusinessMap.
Google Maps and Bing Maps are great too, but they don't work offline.
I want a single solution with the following features: - ability to have Regions and Sub-Regions - ability to turn on and off at least 50 layers - ability to draw layers from X, Y data or plot North American Street Addresses - return Lats and Longs for previously plotted addresses, and export them in.csv format - ability to do routing without being connected to the internet - polygonal demographics to at least the 5 digit zipcode, but census block would be nice - polygon boundaries to the census block, including sub-administrative boundaries for Mexico and Canada, (I.E FSAs in Canada) - basic world map with first order administrative boundaries (like Canadian Provinces), commercial airports and major cities.
If anyone has any advice about a multi-layered Software approach, please let me know.
