The Map Builder supports the following types
of map data:
- 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 Terrain Elevation Data (DTED® ) 0, 1 and 2
- Global Topographic Data (GTOPO30) DEM
- 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.
For information about data sources, see Data sources and Importing
a simple data source.