A GIS (Geographic Information System) map file consists of spatial or geographic information about a certain location or area. A GIS mapping software is a program or set of programs that present spatial or geographical data to viewers for visualization, analysis and management. A GIS file can be created manually, extracted from a GPS device or recorded through remote sensing devices and applications. GIS finds its usage in almost all fields of life; from agriculture to town planning, resources analysis, urban planning and for creation of strategies to solve problems.
Common GIS file extensions and their file formats include GPX (GPS Exchange File Format), KML (Keyhole Markup Language File) and SHP (ESRI Shapefile).
With GroupDocs.Conversion you can easily convert your GIS map file into another file format. For example, GPX to PDF conversion code snippet looks like this:
// Load the source GPX fileusing(Converterconverter=newConverter("sample.gpx")){// Set the convert options for PDF formatPdfConvertOptionsoptions=newPdfConvertOptions();// Convert to PDF formatconverter.Convert("converted.pdf",options);}
Put it simply - you just load a GIS file into the Converter class, select the desired output format and GroupDocs.Conversion does all the rest.
Note
Refer to the API reference for more conversion options and customizations.
Convert to another GIS format
On the other hand, converting your GIS files to another GIS format is also quite simple and natural.
The following code snippet shows how to convert a GPX file to KML in C# using GroupDocs.Conversion.
// Load the source GPX fileusing(Converterconverter=newConverter("sample.gpx")){// Set the convert options for KML formatvaroptions=newGisConvertOptions{Format=GisFileType.Kml;};// Convert to KML formatconverter.Convert("converted.kml",options);}
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