Importing vector data
When you are importing existing vector data in your geodatabase, you have to inspect the following characteristics of your data:
- Source and data format (for example, internal/external, reliable, supported)
- Spatial reference (for example, maybe you will need to transform or project the data)
- Attributes (for example, field data type: short integer, text, date)
- Corresponding scale of the source data
- Metadata information (for example, quality of data, access, use and legal constraints)
You have already added data to a file geodatabase:
- Using Load Data to add a feature class in the Editing features in a geodatabase recipe of Chapter 2, Editing Data
- Using Import from the ArcCatalog context menu to add a feature class in the Projecting vector data recipe of Chapter 3, Working with CRS
- Using Load Data and Export from the ArcCatalog context menu to add a DXF file from the external source in the Spatial joining features recipe of Chapter 4, Geoprocessing
Getting ready
In this recipe, you...
