Common Vectors Driver Category

Current driver status: Import available, export unavailable.

Drag and drop supported?Yes

Support status: Supported.

To access this driver:

Display the Data Import screen. This screen is displayed when import-loading and when adding a file association to the current project. In all cases, functions are found on the Data ribbon.
Select the Common Vectors Driver category and an option in the Data Type list.

The Common Vectors driver category contains OGR (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) drivers, used to import GIS point and string data in a number of formats.

Note: GIS data is generally separated into 2 types: vector data, which consists of points, lines and polygons; and raster data, which consists of regular grids. The GIS community has developed an open source translator library called GDAL which handles a large variety of raster/grid data, and also contains a component called OGR which handles simple vector data.

Supported File Types

Arc/Info Binary Coverage (*.adf)
Arc/Info E00 Coverages (*.e00)
Atlas BNA (*.bna)
AutoCAD DXF (*.dxf)
Czech cadastral exchange data format (*.vfk)
EPIInfo .REC (*.rec)
ESRI Shapefile (*.shp)
GeoConcept (*.gxt; *.txt)
Geographic Markup Language (*.gml)
GeoJSON (*.geojson)
GeoRSS (*.xml)
GMT ASCII Vectors (*.gmt)
GPS Exchange Format (*.gpx)
GPS TrackMaker (*.gtm)
IHO S-57 (*.000)
Keyhole Markup Language (*.kml)
MapInfo TAB (*.tab)
Mapinfo MIF/MID (*.mif)
Microstation DGN (*.dgn)
PCI Geomatics Database File (*.pix)
Spatial Data Transfer Standard (*.ddf)
SQLite (*.sqlite)
UK National Transfer Format (*.ntf)
U.S. Census TIGER/Line (*.rt1)
X-Plane/Flightgear aeronautical data (*.dat)