Saturday, 18 January 2020

arcgis desktop - Adding GPX files into ArcMap?


What is the smoothest route, the easiest user experience, to add files to ArcMap?


Ideally, I'd like to interact with .gpx with the same facility as .shp, being able drag'n'drop onto the map canvas and so on. Ultimately the results will be feature classes in a file-gdb but shapefile is an acceptable intermediate.



Answer



For those with ArcGIS 10.1 and newer, the GPX to Features tool in the Conversion toolset seems to be what you are looking for because it:



Converts the point information inside a GPX file into features.




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