Conversion Tools
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Conversion Tools |
The Conversion toolbox contains tools that convert data between various formats.
The Conversion toolbox consists of groups of tools, they will be explained with an explanation of all the tools as follows:
Excel Toolset:
The Excel Toolset contains tools for converting Microsoft Excel files to and from Table:
Converts Microsoft Excel files into a table.
Converts a table to a Microsoft Excel file.
From GPS Toolset:
Converts the point information inside a GPX file to features.
From KML Toolset:
Converts a KML or KMZ file into feature classes and a layer file. The layer file maintains the symbology found within the original KML or KMZ file.
From PDF Toolset:
Exports an existing PDF file to a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF). If the PDF has georeference information, the TIFF can be a GeoTIFF. These TIFFs can be used as a source for heads-up digitizing and viewing in ArcMap. Both GeoPDF and ISO standards of georeferenced PDFs are supported.
From Raster Toolset:
Using the tools in the Raster Toolset, you can convert the information in a raster data set to a different type of data structure, such as a feature class, or to a different type of file, such as a binary file or a text file:
Converts a raster dataset to an ASCII text file representing raster data.
Converts a raster dataset to a file of binary floating-point values representing raster data.
Converts a raster dataset to point features.
Converts a raster dataset to polygon features.
Converts a raster dataset to polyline features.
Creates an AVI or Quicktime video file from a set of images.
From WFS Toolset:
Imports a feature type from a web feature service (WFS) to a feature class in a geodatabase.
JSON Toolset:
The JSON Toolset contains tools for converting features to JSON and JSON to features based on the ArcGIS REST API specification for the feature collection. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a lightweight, text-based data exchange format for sharing GIS data between ArcGIS and other systems. It is language-neutral and most programming languages like Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, etc., provide libraries for reading, manipulating, and writing JSON:
Converts features to JSON format. The fields, geometry, and spatial reference of features will be converted to their corresponding JSON representation and written to a file with a .json extension.
Converts JSON features based on ArcGIS REST API specification into a feature class. The feature class will have fields, geometry type, and spatial reference as defined in the JSON.
Metadata Toolset:
All ArcGIS objects contain a description, also referred to as metadata. The Metadata Toolkit allows you to manipulate the metadata of ArcGIS objects and XML independent metadata files:
Uses the ArcGIS metadata translation engine or an XSLT transformation to export metadata content from ArcGIS to a stand-alone metadata XML file. The exported metadata will be formatted to satisfy the metadata standard associated with the specified translation.
Metadata for items in ArcGIS is stored in the ArcGIS metadata format. Use the ArcGIS to translations to export ArcGIS metadata to another metadata XML format. For example, do this to share information outside of ArcGIS by publishing it to a metadata catalog. Different metadata catalogs accept information in different XML formats. ArcGIS metadata can be exported to different formats if you must publish your information to metadata catalogs with different requirements.
When using a to ISO 19139 translation, the exported metadata will be formatted following the rules defined in ISO standard 19139, Geographic information — Metadata — XML schema implementation, and its associated XML Schemas. The same translation is used to export metadata according to an ISO metadata profile. The translation accounts for the metadata style selected in ArcGIS. For example, when the selected metadata style is North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 – Geographic information – Metadata, the output file will be formatted appropriately for that ISO metadata profile.
When using the ArcGIS to FGDC translation, the exported metadata will be formatted following the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) XML format. The resulting file can be published to GeoPlatform.gov, for example.
FGDC to translations handle information in the item's metadata, which is formatted according to the FGDC CSDGM XML format. This content appears under the FGDC Metadata (read-only) heading in the Description tab when you are using a metadata style that gives you full access to the item's metadata. This content may have been provided with the current release of ArcGIS Desktop using the FGDC metadata editor add-in or using the FGDC metadata editor provided with ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 or earlier releases.
The to ArcGIS translations convert other metadata XML formats to the ArcGIS metadata format. This is an important step in the process of importing metadata that exists in another format to an ArcGIS item; however, several additional steps are also required to achieve the best results. Use the Import Metadata tool with the appropriate translation to complete this task instead.
Exports metadata for many ArcGIS items to a designated folder. This tool is a model that uses Export Metadata to export metadata for many ArcGIS items.
Exports metadata for many ArcGIS items to a designated folder. This tool is a model that uses Export Metadata to export metadata for many ArcGIS items.
Imports metadata to the target item after converting the source item's metadata to ArcGIS metadata, if appropriate. The source and target may be ArcGIS items or stand-alone metadata XML files.
This tool processes the source metadata before importing it and updates the target metadata after. Any intrinsic properties of the source item that were added automatically to its metadata by ArcGIS are removed along with any unique identifiers before converting the information to the ArcGIS metadata format, if necessary. After the imported information is saved, the target item's metadata is automatically updated with its intrinsic properties.
This tool is useful for copying metadata from one item to another when you start creating its metadata; the imported metadata acts as a template. Using another metadata document as a template can save time if two items share some information such as legal restrictions or a description of the project for which they were created.
Existing metadata will be replaced by the imported metadata.
Copies metadata from the source item to the target item. Metadata is retrieved from the source item and transferred to the target item without changing it. The source and target may be ArcGIS items or stand-alone metadata XML files.
The source metadata should be ArcGIS metadata. If the imported information is not stored in the ArcGIS metadata format it must be upgraded to ArcGIS metadata before it will be automatically updated to contain the item's intrinsic properties.
This tool is useful for saving changes made to your metadata with an XSLT stylesheet. For example, a model could update metadata using XSLT Transformation with a custom stylesheet, then use this tool to import the changes to the original ArcGIS item.
Existing metadata will be replaced by the imported metadata.
Publishes metadata to a metadata catalog.
The Metadata Publisher tool retrieves the source item's metadata; then a copy of this metadata document is passed to the Publisher specified in the tool. If the source item is a stand-alone XML file, a copy of the file itself will be passed to the Publisher. The Publisher uses information from the tool parameters and from the metadata document to create a request to publish the document to the specified metadata catalog.
The only Publisher provided for this tool with ArcGIS Desktop published metadata to an ArcIMS Metadata Service. ArcIMS is no longer supported. While this tool was intended to allow publishing to metadata catalogs in general, additional publishers are not available for this tool. For the ArcGIS platform, publishing metadata is an integral part of publishing the item it describes; metadata is not published independently.
Automatically updates an ArcGIS item's metadata with the current properties of the item.
For example, if the metadata describes the item as having one projection but the item's projection has changed since the last automatic update, the old projection information in the metadata will be replaced with the new projection information.
The item's metadata must be stored in the ArcGIS metadata format; otherwise, the metadata will not be synchronized.
If a property was set using ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 or earlier to prevent ArcGIS from automatically updating this specific item's metadata with the item's properties, it will be ignored in the current release. ArcGIS metadata will always be synchronized with the item it descibes.
Updates an ArcGIS item's metadata or a stand-alone XML file to the current ArcGIS metadata format.
The current release of ArcGIS will only maintain information in the ArcGIS metadata format. For example, if an ArcGIS item has metadata in another format it must be upgraded to ArcGIS metadata before ArcGIS will automatically update it with the item's current properties; the item's properties are recorded in ArcGIS metadata elements.
Upgrading metadata for the current release of ArcGIS will not change the existing metadata except to add ArcGIS metadata alongside the existing information. The existing metadata will remain unchanged.
Uses the USGS metadata parser utility, known as mp, to export or validate FGDC metadata content. The mp utility is created and maintained by the USGS for managing metadata that follows the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM). A version of mp is provided with ArcGIS.
This tool only uses metadata elements in an item's metadata or a stand-alone metadata XML file that follow the FGDC CSDGM metadata format. FGDC content may exist in an ArcGIS item's metadata. For example, if the metadata was created in ArcGIS Desktop 9.3.1 or earlier using the FGDC metadata editor or created in the current version of ArcGIS Desktop using the FGDC metadata editor add-in, the item's metadata will include elements that follow the FGDC XML format. This tool only exports these FGDC XML metadata elements—the information displayed in the FGDC Metadata (read-only) section in the Description tab if you are using a metadata style that provides access to an item's complete metadata.
If an item's metadata only contains information edited in the Description tab it won't contain any XML elements that can be exported using this tool. After selecting the FGDC CSDGM Metadata style you can export ArcGIS metadata to the FGDC XML format. Use this tool with the exported FGDC XML file to generate the HTML, text, and SGML files that are commonly associated with FGDC metadata.
Exports metadata to a standard metadata format then validates the exported file.
ArcGIS metadata can't be directly validated against a metadata standard's XML schema. This tool validates ArcGIS metadata by first exporting it to an XML file that is formatted to follow a metadata standard's XML schema using Export Metadata, then validating the exported file using XML Schema Validation. Only use this tool to validate ArcGIS metadata, not a stand-alone XML file that is already formatted correctly for a metadata standard's XML format.
Any validation errors and warnings will be reported in the tool's messages.
Exports metadata for many ArcGIS items to a designated folder and validates the exported files. This tool is a model that uses the Validate Metadata tool to validate metadata for many ArcGIS items.
Validates an ArcGIS item's metadata or any XML file using the .NET 3.5 Framework's XML software. The XML is checked to see if it follows the structure and content rules outlined by an XML schema. Schemas written using the DTD or W3C XML Schema languages may be used with this tool.
ArcGIS metadata is not formatted in a manner that can be directly validated against an XML schema. However, other metadata geoprocessing tools can export ArcGIS metadata to XML files that are formatted to follow a metadata standard's XML Schema or DTD; use this tool to validate the exported XML file or a stand-alone metadata XML file that is already formatted correctly for a metadata standard's XML schema.
If the metadata or XML file is not valid for the specified XML Schema or DTD, the warnings or errors returned by the XML software will appear in the tool's messages.
Uses the .NET 3.5 XML software to transform an ArcGIS item's metadata or any XML file using an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet and save the result to an XML file.
XSLT stylesheets can be used to perform a variety of modifications to ArcGIS metadata or an XML file. Several XSLT stylesheets are provided with ArcGIS Desktop. They can be used to save a copy of an item's metadata to an XML file, save a copy of the metadata display to an HTML file, and change an item's metadata content. These XSLT stylesheets can be found in the <ArcGIS Installation Location>\Metadata\Stylesheets folder.
You can create your own XSLT stylesheets to perform tasks using the provided stylesheets as examples. For example, you might write a stylesheet to do the following:
- Update addresses or phone numbers. Create a model that runs this process and uses the Metadata Importer tool to save the updated metadata to the original ArcGIS item.
- Remove information that you do not want publicly available before exporting or publishing the metadata. Create a model that runs this process before running the Export Metadata or Metadata Publisher tools.
- Export information to an XML or HTML file that can be incorporated into a website. Create a script that runs this process periodically.
XSLT stylesheets that modify ArcGIS metadata should not remove information in the Esri and Binary metadata elements except when the output XML will be used outside of ArcGIS.
To CAD Toolset:
The tools in the To CAD toolkit convert geodatabase features into native CAD formats. You can use these tools in geoprocessing models and scripts to define your own conversion actions:
Adds several reserved CAD fields in one step. Fields created by this tool are used by the Export To CAD tool to generate CAD entities with specific properties. After executing this tool, you must calculate or type the appropriate field values.
Creates one or more CAD drawings based on the values contained in one or more input feature classes or feature layers and supporting tables.
To Collada Toolset:
Converts one or more multipatch features into a collection of COLLADA (.dae) files and referenced texture image files in an output folder. The inputs can be a layer or a feature class.
To Coverage Toolset:
Coverage combines spatial data, feature data, and store topological correlations between features. Spatial data is kept in binary files, and attribute and topology data are kept in INFO tables:
Creates a single ArcInfo Workstation coverage from one or more input feature classes or layers.
Imports an ArcInfo Workstation interchange file (.e00). An interchange file is used to transport coverages, INFO tables, text files such as AML macros, and other ArcInfo files. For coverages, grids, and tins, it contains all information, including appropriate INFO table information. Interchange files are designated with the .e00 file suffix. This is the ArcView GIS version of the utility for importing e00 files.
To dBASE Toolset:
Converts one or more tables to dBASE tables.
To Geodatabase Toolset:
The To Geodatabase Toolset contains tools for converting and writing data to a geodatabase:
Reads a CAD dataset and creates feature classes of the drawing. The feature classes are written to a geodatabase feature dataset.
Copy Runtime Geodatabase to File Geodatabase
Copies the contents of a Runtime geodatabase into a new file geodatabase.
Feature Class to Feature Class
Converts a shapefile, coverage feature class, or geodatabase feature class to a shapefile or geodatabase feature class.
Feature Class to Geodatabase (multiple)
Converts one or more feature classes or feature layers to geodatabase feature classes.
Converts a collection of CAD annotation features to geodatabase annotation. You can convert each level to individual annotation classes or merge them into a single class. Also, if you choose map layers as input, the level and font overrides will be honored.
Converts a collection of coverage annotation features to geodatabase annotation. You can convert each level to individual annotation classes or merge them into a single class. Also, if you choose map layers as input, the level and font overrides will be honored.
Raster To Geodatabase (multiple)
Loads multiple raster datasets into a geodatabase or raster catalog.
If this tool is used to load raster datasets into a raster catalog, then you need to run the Calculate Default Spatial Grid Index tool after the loading is completed.
Table To Geodatabase (multiple)
Converts one or more tables to geodatabase tables in an output geodatabase. The inputs can be dBASE, INFO, VPF, OLE DB tables, geodatabase tables, or table views.
Exports the rows of a table, table view, feature layer, feature class, or raster with attribute table to a new geodatabase, .csv, .txt, or .dbf table.
To GeoPackage Toolset:
Load raster datasets into an OGC GeoPackage raster pyramid.
To KML Toolset:
Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based language provided by Google to define the graphical display of spatial data in applications such as Google Earth and Google Maps. KML enables these applications to support the open integration of custom data layers from multiple GIS users:
This tool converts a feature or raster layer into a KML file containing a translation of Esri geometries and symbology. This file is compressed using ZIP compression, has a .kmz extension, and can be read by any KML client including ArcGIS Earth, ArcGlobe, and Google Earth.
This tool converts a map document into a KML file containing a translation of Esri geometries and symbology. This file is compressed using ZIP compression, will have a .kmz extension, and can be read by any KML client including Explorer for ArcGIS, ArcGlobe, and Google Earth.
To Raster Toolset:
Raster information can be stored in many different data file formats that can be read by ArcGIS. With the To Raster toolkit, you can convert these files into raster datasets. There are also tools that allow you to convert different types of feature information into raster data:
Converts an ASCII file representing raster data to a raster dataset.
Converts a digital elevation model (DEM) in a United States Geological Survey (USGS) format to a raster dataset.
Converts features to a raster dataset.
Converts a file of binary floating-point values representing raster data to a raster dataset.
Creates a raster using elevation, intensity, or RGB values stored in the lidar points referenced by the LAS dataset.
Converts multipatch features to a raster dataset.
Converts point features to a raster dataset.
Converts polygon features to a raster dataset.
Converts polyline features to a raster dataset.
Raster To Other Format (multiple)
Converts one or more raster datasets to a different format.
To Shapefile Toolset:
Feature Class To Shapefile (multiple)
Copies the features from one or more feature classes or layers to a folder of shapefiles.
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