Map data supported

Map data supported

The Map Builder supports the following types of map data:

ARC Standard Raster Product (ASRP) (.gen )

UTM/USP Standard Raster Product (USRP) (.gen)

Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphic (CADRG) (.TOC)

TIFF file-based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery (GeoTIFF) (.tif)

Nongeoreferenced raster images (.gif, .tif, .jpg, .png)

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Shape files (.shp)

MapInfo Interchange Format (.mif)

Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system (TIGER/Line®) files (.rt*)

Drawing Interchange Format ( see DXF format) files (.dxf)

Google Earth™ Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and KML Zipped (KMZ) formats ( see KML/ KMZ) (.kml, .kmz)

Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File format (see DAFIF file)

National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) VPF/VMAP 0, 1 and 2

Digital Terrain Elevation Data (DTED®) 0, 1 and 2

Global Topographic Data (GTOPO30) DEM

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S57 formatted file sets (see S57 standard)

Web Map Server (see WMS standard) images

IBM® DB2® Spatial Extender

IBM® Informix® Spatial DataBlade™

Oracle® Spatial

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files

Note that you can code your own map reader using the API provided. For more information, see Using readers and Readers and writers.

For information about data sources, see Data sources and Importing a simple data source.