ArcGIS Pro has reintroduced the concept of projects to Esri users. Esri first introduced the concept of managing your Geographic Information System (GIS) using project files with their ArcView GIS application. ArcView GIS used projects to manage map layouts, views, tables, data connections, and more all within a single .apr file. This allowed us to access everything associated with a project from a single location.
When Esri released ArcGIS in 1999, the previously described method was dropped. In its place, Esri decided to use separate files called map documents (.mxd files) for ArcMap. A map document contains a single map with one or more data frames. So, for each map you need, you will have to create a ...
