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Supported Formats


ArcGIS Data Interoperability provides direct data access, transformation, and export capabilities to enable ArcGIS users to integrate, use, and distribute data in many formats.

Short nameDescriptionReaderWriter
3DSAutodesk 3ds
ADRGARC Digitized Raster Graphics ADRG 
ACADAutodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF
ADACAustralian Asset Design and As Constructed (ADAC) 
PRCAdobe PRC 
AISNMEA Automatic Identification System (AIS) 
AIXMAeronautical Information Exchange Model 4.5 (AIXM 4.5)
AIXM5Aeronautical Information Exchange Model 5.x (AIXM 5.x)
AMLAdditional Military Layers (AML) 
ARCGENEsri ArcInfo Generate
ARCGISFEATURESEsri ArcGIS Server Feature Service 
ARCGISMAPEsri ArcGIS Map Document 
ARCGISONLINEFEATURESEsri ArcGIS Online (AGOL) Feature Services
ARCGIS_LAYEREsri ArcGIS Layer 
ARCINFOEsri ArcInfo Coverage
ARCPADAXFEsri ArcPad Exchange Format(AXF) 
ARCVIEWGRIDEsri ArcGIS Binary Grid (AIG) 
ASRPARC Standard Raster Product (ASRP) 
ATHENAAmazon Athena 
AVFApple Venue Format (AVF)
AZURE_TABLEMicrosoft Windows Azure Table
BAGBathymetric Attributed Grid
BCFBIM Collaboration Format (BCF)
BMPMicrosoft Bitmap (BMP)
BSBMaptech BSB Nautical Chart
CADRGCompressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphics (CADRG)
CALSContinuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS)
CARTOCarto
CATColumn Aligned Text (CAT) 
CDEDCanadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED)
CH.EHI.FME.MAINSwiss INTERLIS (ili2fme)
CESIUM3DPCCesium 3D Point Cloud
CESIUM3DTILESCesium 3D Tiles
CGDEFComGraphix Data Exchange Format (CGDEF)
CIBControlled Image Base (CIB)
CITYGMLCityGML
CIVIL3DAutodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
CLOUDSPANNER_JDBCGoogle Cloud Spanner
COLLADACollaborative Design Activity (COLLADA)
COM.ACTIAN.INGRES.INGRESActian Ingres Spatial
GCOM.ACTIAN.INGRES.INGRES_DBActian Ingres Nonspatial
COUCHDBCouchDB
CSVComma-Separated Value (CSV)
CSV2Comma-Separated Value (CSV)
CUZK_GMLCUZK GML (Czech Republic) 
DATAFILEData File
DB2IBM DB2 Nonspatial
DB2SPATIALIBM DB2 Spatial
DB2SPATIAL_DASHDBIBM dashDB Spatial
DB2_DASHDBIBM dashDB Non-Spatial
DBFdBASE (DBF)
DELORME_GPLDeLorme GPS Track Logs (GPL) Reader
DENODOImplicit dependency on third-party JDBC Drivers
DGNV8Bentley MicroStation Design (V8)
DIRECTXDirectX X File
DLGDigital Line Graph (DLG) 
DMDFDigital Map Data Format (DMDF) 
DNFOS (GB) MasterMap 
DSFLDanish DSFL 
DSFLW2Danish DSFL Writer V.2 
DTEDDigital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED)
DWFAutodesk AutoCAD DWF
DYNAMODBAmazon DynamoDB
E00Esri ArcInfo Export (E00)
E57ASTM E57
ELASTICSEARCHElastic Elasticsearch
ENVIHDRITT ENVI .hdr RAW Raster
EPA_GDXMLU.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Geospatial Data 
EPSEncapsulated PostScript (EPS) 
ERDASERDAS IMAGINE
ERDASRAWERDAS RAW
ERSER Mapper ERS
ESFBC MoF Electronic Submission Framework (ESF)
ESRIASCIIGRIDEsri ASCII Grid
ESRIHDRITT ENVI .hdr RAW Raster
ESRIJSONEsri_JSON (Esri JavaScript Object Notation)
ESRIMSDEsri Mapping Specification for CAD (MSC)
ESRISHAPEEsri Shapefile
FACETFacet XDR
FBXAutodesk FBX
FFSFME Feature Store (FFS)
FILECOPYFile Copy 
FILEGDBEsri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API)
FME_AR_FILEFME Augmented Reality (AR) 
FM0Intergraph GeoMedia Access Warehouse
FM0_SQLIntergraph GeoMedia SQL Server Warehouse
FMWFME Workspace (FMW) 
GARMIN_GDBGarmin GDB
GARMIN_MPIGarmin MapSource
GARMIN_POIGarmin POI
GDAL_ACE2ACE2 (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_AIRSARNASA JPL Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (AIRSAR) Polarimetric (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_ARGAzavea Raster Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_BLXMagellan BLX Topographical (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_BTVirtual Terrain Project Binary Terrain Format (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_COASPCEOS (Spot for instance) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_COSARTerraSAR-X Complex SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_CPGConvair PolGASP (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_CTGUSGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Composite Theme Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_DOQ1First-Generation USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_DOQ2New Labelled USGS Digital Ortho Quad (DOQ) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_E00GRIDArc/Info Export E00 GRID (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_ECRGTOCEnhanced Compressed Raster Graphic (ECRG) Table Of Contents (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_ELASNASA Earth Resources Laboratory Applications Software (ELAS) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_FASTEarth Observation Satellite (EOSAT) Company FAST (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_FUJIBASFuji Bio-Imaging Analyzer Systems (BAS) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_GENBINGeneric Binary (.hdr Labelled) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_GENERIC_RASTERGDAL Generic Raster 
GDAL_GFFSandia National Laboratories GSat (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_GSAGGolden Software ASCII Grid (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_DXFGrid eXchange File (GXF) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_IDAImage Display and Analysis (WinDisp) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_IRISInteractive Radar Information System (IRIS) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_ISIS2USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 2) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_ISIS3USGS Astrogeology International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) cube (Version 3) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_JAXAPALSARJapanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (PALSAR) Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_JDEMJapanese Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_JEFFFake format 
GDAL_KROKRO (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_LB1NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_LANErdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_LCPFARSITE v.4 Landscape (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_LEVELLERDaylon Leveller Heightfield (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_LOSLASNorth America Datum Conversion Utility (NADCON) .los/.las Datum Grid Shift (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_MAPOziExplorer .MAP (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_MFFVexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_MFF2Vexcel Multi-File Format (MFF) 2 - Hierarchical Key Value (HKV) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_NDRNational Land Archive Production System (NLAPS) (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_NGSGEOIDNOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geoid Height Grids (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_OZIOziExplorer OZI OZF2/OZFX3 (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_PAUXPCI .aux Labelled (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_PCRASTERPCRaster (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_PDSNASA Planetary Data System (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_PNMNetpbm (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_ROI_PACNASA JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Repeat Orbit Interferometry Package (ROI PAC) Raster (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_RS2RadarSat2 XML (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_SAGASystem for Automated Geoscientific Analysis (SAGA GIS) Binary (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_SAR_CEOSSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) CEOS (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_SNODASSnow Data Assimilation System (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_TERRAGENTerragen Heightfield (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_TILEarthWatch/DigitalGlobe (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_TSXTerraSAR-X (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDAL_VICARVideo Image Communication And Retrieval (Default 3rd Party Format) 
GDMSGeographic Data Management System (GDMS) 
GENAMAPGenasys GenaMap 
GTFSGeneral Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
GENERICGeneric (Any Format)
GEODATABASE_FILEEsri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase ArcObjects)
GEODATABASE_FILE_MOSAIC_DATASETEsri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Mosaic Dataset) 
GEODATABASE_FILE_MOSAIC_CATALOGEsri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Raster Catalog) 
GEODATABASE_FILE_RASTER_DATASETEsri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase Raster Dataset)
GEODATABASE_SDE_MOSAIC_DATASETEsri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Mosaic Dataset) 
GEODATABASE_SDE_MOSAIC_CATALOGEsri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Raster Catalog) 
GEODATABASE_SDE_RASTER_DATASETEsri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase Raster Dataset)
GEODATABASE_MDBEsri Geodatabase (Personal Geodatabase)
GEODATABASE_SDEEsri Geodatabase (ArcSDE Geodatabase)
GEODATABASE_XMLEsri Geodatabase (XML Workspace Document) 
GEOHASHGeohash 
GEOJSONGeographic JavaScript Object Notation (GeoJSON)
Esri CommunityNGA Esri Community Names Server 
GEOPACKAGEOGC GeoPackage
GEOPACKAGE_RASTEROGC GeoPackage Tiles
GEORSSGeoRSS/RSS Feed
GEOTIFFGeoreferenced Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF)
GGBentley MicroStation GeoGraphics
GIFGIF Rasterizer 
GIFRASTERGIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
GLTFglTF (GL Transmission Format) 
GMLGML (Geography Markup Language)
GML2GML v2.1.2 
GML212GML v2.1.2 
GMLSFGML SF-0 (Geography Markup Language Simple Features Level SF-0 Profile)
GOOGLEBIGQUERYGoogle BigQuery 
GOOGLESHEETSGoogle Sheet
GOOGLEFUSIONTABLESGoogle Fusion Tables Spatial
GOOGLEFUSIONTABLES_DBGoogle Fusion Tables Non-Spatial
GOOGLEMAPSENGINETABLESGoogle Maps Engine (GME) Tables
GPXGPS eXchange Format (GPX)
GRIBWorld Meteorological Organization GRIB (GRIdded Binary) 
HDF4_ASTERHierarchical Data Format 4 (HDF4) ASTER 
HDF4_HYPERIONHierarchical Data Format 4 (HDF4) Hyperion 
GRDPenMetrics GRD
GUESS_FROM_EXTENSION<Guess format name from extension> 
HTMLTABLEHTML Table 
HYD93NGDC Hydrographic Surveys Data Exchange (HYD93)
HYPACKBRDHypack Border
CLOUDANTIBM Cloudant
I2KGMLSwedish I2K/G2K (Interface 2000 GML)
I3SEsri Indexed 3D Scene Layer 
INFX_JDBC_NONSPATIALIBM Informix Non-Spatial (JDBC)
IDRISIIDRISI Vector Format
IDRISI_RASTERIDRISI Raster Format
IEPSAdobe Illustrator EPS 
IFCIndustry Foundation Class STEP Files (IFC)
IFF1Spatial Internal Feature Format (IFF)
IGDSBentley MicroStation Design (V7)
IMDFIndoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF)
INGRIntergraph Raster
IMXAutodesk IMX (FDO) 
INFXIBM Informix
INFXSPATIALIBM Informix Spatial
INDOORGMLIndoor GML
INSPIREINSPIRE GML
ISCEInterferometric synthetic aperture radar Scientific Computing Environment (ISCE)
ISO8211ISO8211 
IUFLand Victoria Incremental Update Format (IUF) 
COM.SAFE.FME.JDBCJava Database Connectivity (JDBC)
DB2_JDBC_NONSPATIALIBM DB2 Non-Spatial (JDBC)
JDBCJava Database Connectivity (JDBC)
JOBXMLTrimble JobXML 
JPEGJoint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
JSONJavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
KF85Swedish KF85
KOMMUNGMLKommunGML (Sweden) 
KUNTAGMLKuntaGML (Finland) 
LANDONLINELandonline (Land Information New Zealand Cadastre Survey Data Exchange Format based on LandXML) 
LANDSAT8Landsat-8 
LANDSAT*AWSLandsat-8 on AWS 
LANDXMLLandXML 
LASASPRS Lidar Data Exchange Format (LAS)
MASIKSwedish MASIK
MBTILESSQLite MBTiles
MCFSTAR-APIC Mercator MCF
MDB_ADOMicrosoft Access
MGEIntergraph MGE
MIFMapInfo MIF/MID
MINECRAFTMojang Minecraft
MITABMapInfo TAB (MITAB)
MOEPB.C. MOEP 
MONGODBMongoDB
MRFMeta Raster Format (MRF)
MSACCESS_JDBCMicrosoft Access (JDBC)
MSSQL_ADOMicrosoft SQL Server Non-Spatial
MSSQL_JDBC_SPATIALMicrosoft SQL Server Spatial (JDBC) 
MSSQL_JDBC_NONSPATIALMicrosoft SQL Server Non-Spatial (JDBC)
MSSQL_SPATIALMSSQL_SPATIAL 
MSSQL_SPATIALMicrosoft SQL Server Spatial
DOCUMENTDBMicrosoft Azure DocumentDB
MSSQL_AZUREMicrosoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial
MSSQL_JDBC_AZURE_NONSPATIALMicrosoft Azure SQL Database Non-Spatial (JDBC) 
MSSQL_AZURE_SPATIALMicrosoft Azure SQL Database Spatial
MSWORDMicrosoft Word 
MTKGMLNLSF Topographic GML (MTKGML) 
MYSQLMariaDB (MySQL compatible) Spatial
MYSQL_AURORA_NONSPATIALAmazon Aurora Non-Spatial
MYSQL_AURORA_SPATIALAmazon Aurora Spatial
MYSQL_DBMariaDB (MySQL compatible) Non-Spatial
MYSQL_GOOGLEGoogle Cloud SQL Spatial
MYSQL_GOOGLE_DBGoogle Cloud SQL Non-Spatial
NEN3610NEN 3610 (GML) 
NASGerman AAA GML Exchange Format (NAS) 
NETCDFNetCDF (Network Common Data Form)
NGRIDMapInfo Vertical Mapper Grid (NGrid) 
NITFNational Imagery Transmission Format (JITC uncertified)
NMEA_GPSNMEA GPS 
NTFOS (GB) NTF 
NULLNULL (Nothing)
OBJWavefront OBJ
ODATAOData 
ODBC2ODBC 3.x
OGCKMLGoogle Earth KML
OGDIMicrosoft OGDI Data Lab
OGEOSMSOGC Open GeoSMS 
OPENFLIGHTPresagis .flt (OPENFLIGHT)
ORACLE_RELATIONALOracle Spatial Relational
ORACLE_SPATIALOracle Spatial Object
ORACLE_NONSPATIALOracle Non-Spatial
ORACLEPOINTCLOUDOracle Spatial Point Cloud
ORACLERASTEROracle Spatial GeoRaster
OSGOpenSceneGraphic OSGB/OSGT
OSMOpenStreetMap (OSM) XML 
OSMPBFOpenStreetMap (OSM) Protocolbuffer Binary Format (PBF) 
OSVECTORMAPDISTRICTOS VectorMap District 
OSVECTORMAPLOCALOS VectorMap Local 
P190PGP P1/90 Post Plot Positioning Data
PATHDirectory or File Pathnames 
PCARCINFOEsri PC ArcInfo Coverage 
PCDPoint Cloud Data (PCD)
PCIDSKPCI Geomatics Database File (PCIDSK)
PDFAdobe 3D PDF 
PDF2DAdobe Geospatial PDF 
PHOCUSPHOCUS PHODAT 
PLANETDATAPlanet Data 
PNGPNG Rasterizer 
PNGRASTERPortable Network Graphic (PNG)
POINTCLOUDXYZPoint Cloud XYZ
ARCGISPORTALFEATURESPortal for ArcGIS
POSTGISPostGIS
POSTGISRASTERPOSTGIS Raster
POSTGRESPostgreSQL
POWERPOINTMicrosoft PowerPoint 
QLFCITS Data Transfer Format (QLF)
QVXQlik data eXchange 
RADARSAT2RADARSAT-2 XML 
RADATAR Statistical Data (RDATA) Non-Spatial
RADATARASTERR Statistical Data (RDATA) Array as Raster
RDBRIEGL Laser Scan Database (RDB) 
RDB_PROJECTRIEGL RDB Project 
REDSHIFTAmazon Redshift
REGISRegional Geographic Information System (REGIS)
REVITAutodesk Revit 
S57S-57 (ENC) Hydrographic Data 
SAP_HANA_NONSPATIALSAP HANA Non-Spatial
SAP_HANA_SPATIALSAP HANA Spatial
SAP_SYBASE_ASESAP Sybase ASE
SAIFSpatial Archive and Interchange Format (SAIF) 
SALESFORCESalesforce
SASStatistical Analysis System (SAS)
SAVIBM PASW (SPSS) .sav
SCHEMASchema (Any Format) 
SCHEMA_FROM_TABLESchema (From Table) 
SDE30Esri ArcSDE
SDF3Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise SDF
SDLAutodesk MapGuide SDL
SDERASTEREsri Legacy ArcSDE Raster
SDERASTERCATALOGEsri Legacy ArcSDE Raster Catalog 
SDERASTERMAPEsri Legacy ArcSDE Raster Map 
SDTSSpatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) 
SEABEDMLSeabedML (GML)
SEG-P1SEG-P1 
SEGYSEG-Y
SENTINEL1Sentinel-1 SAR SAFE 
SENTINEL2Sentinel-2 MSI SAFE 
SENTINEL2AWSSentinel-2 on AWS 
SGISGI IMAGE
SHAPEEsri Shape
SHAREPOINTMicrosoft SharePoint List
SKPGoogle SketchUp
SLFStandard Linear Format (SLF) 
SOCRATASocrata 
SOSI_GMLSOSI GML
SPATIALITESpatiaLite
SQLITE3SQLite Non-Spatial
SQLLDROracle SQL Loader 
SRTMHGTShuttle Radar Topography Mission Height (SRTM HGT) 
STLStandard Triangle/Tesselation Language (STL)
STRUMAPNorthgate StruMap
SUNRASTERSun Raster
SURFERBINARYGolden Software Surfer Binary Grid
SVGScalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 
SXFPanorama Storage and eXchange Format (SXF) 
TERADATA_JDBC_NONSPATIALTeradata Non-Spatial
TERADATA_JDBC_SPATIALTeradata Spatial
TERRAINTILESAWSTerrain Tiles on AWS 
TERRASCANTerrasolid TerraScan
TETGENTetGen
TEXTLINEText File
TIFFTagged Image File Format (TIFF)
TIGERU.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 
TIGERGMLU.S. Census Bureau TIGER/GML 
TOMTOM_POITomTom POI
TOP10Dutch TOP10 GML
TOP50NLDutch TOP50NL GML 
UFODanish UFO
USGS_DEMU.S. Geological Survey Digital Elevation Model (USGSDEM)
VMLVector Markup Language (VML) 
VRT_RASTERVRT Raster (GDAL Virtual Format) 
VPF_DBVector Product Format Database (VPF_DB) 
VRML97Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML97) 
VRTOGR Virtual Dataset (VRT) 
WEBPGoogle WebP
WFSWeb Feature Service (WFS) 
WHITESTARHalliburton GeoGraphix CDF
WKBOGC Well Known Binary (WKB) 
WKTOGC Well Known Text (WKT) 
WLASWell Log Ascii Standard
WMSWMS (Web Map Service) 
X3DX3D 
X3D_VRMLVirtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 
XDKXDK (XML format for Danish DSFL) 
XLS_ADOMicrosoft Excel
XLSXRMicrosoft Excel 
XLSXWMicrosoft Excel 
XMLExtensible Markup Language (XML)
XPWX11 Pixmap (XPM)
XYZSpace Delimited XYZ 
Z-MAP_ASCIILandmark Z-Map (ASCII) 
ZFSZ+F LaserControl ZFS 
ZGFLandmark Zycor Graphics File (ZGF) 
ZMAPLandmark Z-Map (ASCII) 
ZMAPRASTERLandmark Z-Map Grid
ZMAPRAWLandmark Z-Map Vector 

+ Requires application software to be installed

* GML (simple features profile) reading/writing and WFS connections are enabled without licensing the extension, but installation is required.