Data Interoperability | GIS Data Types & Open Data Capabilities

Open Data

Achieving data flow

ArcGIS enables interoperability of all GIS data types, formats, and specifications of data. Users can bring vector and raster data into and out of the system in their format of choice. Many organizations also use ArcGIS to share and work with open data so they can communicate effectively, meet mandated transparency requirements, and enable greater insights. Esri includes open data capabilities at no cost in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Hub.

Supporting your data formats

Data interoperability ensures that you can access and store GIS data types in the formats you already use. ArcGIS works directly with the most common data sources, widely implements open standard formats, and provides the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension for unique transformation needs.

Geospatial features
ArcGIS supports all the common vector data types and formats to serve up points, lines, and polygons, such as the following:

Geodatabases
Spatial databases

Shapefiles

GeoPackage

GeoJSON

KML

JSON

XML

SDTS

OGC Web Services
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Tabular
ArcGIS can expose the spatial data hidden in your tabular data such as the following:

Databases
dBase

CSV/Text/ASCII

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Access

Anything connected via OLE DB API
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Imagery, EO, and 3D
ArcGIS apps and servers directly support more than 200 raster and 3D data formats, types, and sensors like the following:

Commercial Satellite
Public Satellite (Landsat/Sentinel)

Aerial photography

UAS/UAV

Lidar (LAS, LAZ)

JPEG

TIFF/GeoTIFF/COG

GRIB

HDF

netCDF

CAD/Revit
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Web and real time
ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online support the ingest of many real-time data feeds, sensors, and streams:

RSS
WebSocket
Website (Poll)
Kafka Event Messenger
Azure Event Hub
NMEA
GTFS
Waze
Sierra Wireless RAP
Trimble TAIP
Twitter
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
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Data Interoperability extension

For all other data or storage types, the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension connects hundreds of different files, databases, cloud and web services, feeds, and more to ArcGIS without any coding. Freely leverage vector, raster, text, tabular, markup, notation, binary data, and more.

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