The various products had branched out into multiple source trees and did not integrate well with one another. Other Esri products included MapObjects, a programming library for developers, and ArcSDE as a relational database management system. Prior to the ArcGIS suite, Esri had focused its software development on the command line Arc/INFO workstation program and several Graphical User Interface-based products such as the ArcView GIS 3.x desktop program. To add and view geojson file in ArcMap, just use the Add Data button as you would to add a shapefile or geodatabase feature class - like the example below.Product history ArcGIS version history

I’m using the most current version of ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.1 and ArcGIS Pro 2.2.3. With ArcGIS Pro you have to convert geojson file first to json or something else that ArcGIS Pro can use. I tried to see if I can also view the geojson file in ArcGIS Pro but the file format was not recognized. I guess ArcGIS desktop with the Data Interoperability extension turned on it somehow automatically imported the geojson file in ArcMap for me. I have Data Interoperability extension so was able to just add the geojson file in ArcMap. Note: Viewing geojson file in ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro requires a Data Interoperability Extension, and it needs to be activated or turned on first. In this case I would stick with QGIS, but I listed the steps for ArcGIS below for your information. I’ve tried all 3 different file extensions and they all seem to work.Īdding and viewing geojson data in ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS ProĪrcGIS desktop and Pro can also read geojson files but it’ll cost you a pretty penny ($$$) because you need the data interoperability extension. If trying to add the original *.geojson file crashes the you can try changing the files extension to either *.json or even as *.geojson.txt. If you have a geojson file on your local hard drive or network and want to view/use it in QGIS, you can just drag and drop it from the Browser Panel into the Layers Panel or just double click on the file will add it to the Layers Panel. You can try doing one of the following options below to add geojson to QGIS for viewing.

QGIS can natively open geojson file but it doesn’t always consistently work – at least for me, and I’m not sure why it works sometimes or doesn’t. Once you download the geojson file, how do you view it? Anyway, I was interested in seeing what the building footprints look like for Hawaii as well as wanting to do a quick comparison of the Microsoft/Bing buildings outlines to the one that the City and County of Honolulu has and the OSM buildings extract. The Bing building footprints are open source and can be downloaded for use in geojson format - which is what this post is about.

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