Specifying the file format allows iTunes or Windows Media Player to understand how to read the file and play the music for you. Taking audio file as an example, there are. But what is spatial data file format?įiles in your computer, in most cases, have specific file formats for software to understand how to read them. QGIS provides a FREE and OPEN-SOURCE software (with graphical user interface) to convert between various spatial data format. In these cases, a quick workaround is to convert those data to shapefile first. Dealing with non-shapefile or non-geodatabase format spatial data in ArcGIS Pro could be troublesome sometimes.Įxamples are Large Tertiary Planning Unit (TPU) spatial data and Large Street Block Group (LSBG) spatial data available in the Hong Kong GeoData Store, which spatial vector data are only available in GML format.
And you may experience difficulties when importing those data to ArcGIS Pro. Sometimes, spatial data are not available in shapefile (. The pain of getting correct spatial data file format
Use QGIS to import, convert and export spatial data that cannot be directly read into ArcGIS Pro.
