Geographical Information System Data Types Supported in ArcGIS
A fundamental goal of ArcGIS™ is the ability to work with all your file-based data and DBMS data as well as with ArcIMS™ services. ArcGIS 8.1 lets you work with an extensive array of data sources. These are listed in the tables below.
To become more familiar with ArcGIS, see the book, What is ArcGIS?, provided with your ArcGIS software.
Data types supported in ArcGIS ArcView®, ArcEditor™, and ArcInfo™)
Geodatabases
ArcInfo™ coverages
ArcIMS Feature Services
ArcIMS Map Services
Geography Network connections
PC ARC/INFO coverages
SDE layers
TIN
DXF
DWG
DGN
VPF
Rasters
ESRI SDE Raster
ESRI Raster Catalogs (Image Catalogs)
ERDAS Imagine (.IMG)
ERDAS 7.5 Lan (.LAN)
ERDAS 7.5 GIS (.GIS)
ERDAS Raw (.RAW)
ESRI Band Interleaved by Line (.BIL)
ESRI Band Interleaved by Pixel (.BIP)
ESRI Band Sequential (.BSQ)
ESRI GRID Stack File (.STK)
Windows Bitmap (.BMP)
Controlled Image Base, CIB (.CIB)
Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics, CADRG (.CRG)
DTED Level 1 and 2 (.DT1)
ER Mapper (.ERS)
Graphic Interchange Format, GIF (.GIF)
ADRG Image (.IMG)
ADRG Overview (.OVR)
ADRG Legend (.LGG)
JPEG File Interchange Format, JIFF (.JPG)
National Image Transfer Format, NITF 2.0 and 2.1 (.NTF)
Portable Network Graphics (.PNG)
LizardTech MrSID (.SID)
Tagged Image File Format, TIFF (.TIF)
Text files (.TXT)
OLE DB tables
PMF
StreetMap Europe SDC
Additional data types supported via importers in ArcInfo
Direct conversion of the following formats into a native ArcInfo format:
DFAD
DIME
DLG
ETAK
GIRAS
IGDS
IGES
MOSS
S-57
SDTS (Point, Raster, and Vector)
SLF
TIGER (through v2000)
Sun Raster
Additional data types supported via importers in ArcView and ArcEditor
Direct conversion of the following formats into native ArcView and
ArcEditor formats:
MIF
SDTS (Point and Raster)
For information on additional ArcInfo formats, please see ArcDoc™. Windows NT users of ArcInfo can access ArcDoc from the ArcGIS Programs list on the Start menu (Start>Programs>ArcGIS>ArcInfo Workstation>ArcDoc).
UNIX users can install ArcDoc from the ArcDoc CD or run ArcDoc directly from the CD; see the ArcDoc installation guide for more information.
