We’ll be using the Natural Earth quick start kit dataset, that can be downloaded here. Open Pro and create a new project using a map template.

Step 1: Download the data and create a new, empty project in Pro This requires a separate license and is not covered here. There’s also the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension for Desktop, which is an integrated spatial extract, transform, and load (ETL) toolset that runs within the geoprocessing framework using Safe Software’s FME technology. It should be noted that the Conversion toolset is not exhaustive: there are many different file formats for spatial data and only a few of them are included in the Conversion toolset.

Newly added to Pro 2.9 are the PDF to TIFF geoprocessing tool, the Features to Graphics and the Graphics to Features tool. Also included are tools and scripts to convert to Esri-specific data formats such as GeoDatabase, GeoPackage and the Shapefile. Pro’s Conversion toolset contains seventeen different tools that not only convert between different file formats, but also between data types (such as raster to vector and vice versa).

We’ll have a look at converting a shapefile to JSON format, using Pro’s Conversion tools. This is often required when importing or exporting data out of Pro and use it in another environment. Otherwise, the shapefile will be overwritten.In this tutorial, we’ll cover how you can do data conversion with ArcGIS Pro’s Conversion toolset.ĭata conversion means that you will change data from one file format to another. If any of the input feature classes have the same name, a number will also be appended to the output shapefile names, regardless of the overwrite existing datasets option. If the name of an output shapefile already exists in the output folder, and the Allow geoprocessing tools to overwrite existing datasets option is unchecked, a number will be appended to the end to make the shapefile name unique (for example, rivers_1.shp). To control the output shapefile name and for additional conversion options, see the Export Features tool. For example, if the input is C:ase.gdb ivers, the output shapefile will be named rivers.shp. The name of the output shapefile will be the name of the input feature class. They do not support capabilities found in geodatabases such as Names longer than 10 characters, and they cannot store both a date Support for Unicode character strings, they do not allow field For example, shapefile attributesĬannot store null values, they round up numbers, they have poor Shapefiles have many limitations compared to feature classes in a geodatabase.

Convert arcgis layer to shapefile