Converting shapefiles to a geodatabase feature class

Shapefiles are one of the most common GIS data formats you will encounter during your career in GIS. Just about every GIS-enabled application can read, import, export, and edit a shapefile. This includes applications such as QGIS, AutoCAD Map 3D, Civil 3D, GeoMedia, and many others. This has resulted in shapefiles becoming a common format for sharing GIS data with multiple platforms. It is not uncommon to receive data from engineering, planning, and surveying firms in a shapefile format.

In this recipe, you will receive a shapefile containing the location of several stormwater drainage structures, which were collected by a local surveying firm. You will integrate this shapefile into a geodatabase for the City of Trippville.

Getting ready

This recipe does require the sample data to be installed on the computer. While it is not required to have completed any previous recipes, it is recommended that you at least review Chapter...