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Converting geoJson to shapefile

JoshuaWiebe — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:35:42 GMT

Hi All,

I'm relatively new to ArcGIS, and even newer to Python, or Java. I'm trying to convert a geojson file to a more usable format (.shp, .lyr; anything ArcMap can read), but I have absolutely no idea how to do it.

I have found an incredible file that I'm using for a university project, and I'd love to use it - can someone help me? The file is titled "pipelineroute.geojson" and it's located here -> geodatabc/NorthernGatewayPipeline · GitHub‌

Using (or attempting to use) Ogre (Ogre - ogr2ogr web client‌) has made my head spin........

Is there anyone who can helpp me convert (or convert the file for me?) Thank you so much in advance

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

ChristopherBrown4 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 02:22:52 GMT

Hi There,

I will write this assuming you have access to ArcGIS for Desktop. In the Toolbox inside of ArcMap or ArcCatalog there is a tool specifically for this purpose called "JSON to features", it is found in the conversion toolbox.

More information can be found here ArcGIS Help (10.2, 10.2.1, and 10.2.2)‌

Have a great day,

CDB

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

JoshuaWiebe — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 02:42:07 GMT

Thank you so much; unfortunately, this didn't work. I changed the filetype from geojson to json in the properties of the file (converting the original geojson gave an error.) I used both arccatalog and arcmap to convert the altered JSONto features - I got error 001558 - error parsing json file.

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

ChristopherBrown4 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 03:12:42 GMT

Sorry Joshua, I miss spoke that tool is specifically for the JSON created by the Features to JSON tool, or ArcGIS Feature Services. OK so another way you can do it is to use the Data Interoperability tools. If you did a complete installation of ArcGIS for Desktop and also installed the Data Interoperability extension (which resides on the same disc image) The you have the ability to use the Toolbox corresponding to the extension. If you have a license for this and it is enabled in the ArcMap interface then you can use the Data Interop Quick Import to convert from GeoJSON to any other format in the available list.

I hope this helps,

CDB

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

ÖmerÜNSAL — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 07:21:42 GMT

Hi Christopher,

Data Interoperability > Quick Import tool convert only first object in geojson file.

I added to this text a sample geosjon file.

Thanks in advance

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

BruceHarold — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:03:52 GMT

GeoJSON always consists of a single object, see here: GeoJSON Specification

If you want all those points then you'll need them to be a feature collection.

With respect to the NZ places the coordinates are wrong too, if the points are anything to do with the attributes.

Regards

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

AlicePence — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:23:40 GMT

Try Mapshaper - its pretty straight forward:

mapshaper

Hope this helps.

~Alice

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

AlmazNaizghi — Tue, 17 May 2016 17:35:58 GMT

Hi Alice,

Thank you for the mapshaper. It is short step and straight forward.

I was able to convert the GeoJSON to shapefile.

Regards,

Almaz

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

CaitRiggs — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:40:39 GMT

Found this in the help files installed within the Data Intero. > Quick Import tool at file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/Esri/Data Interoperability (x86)/help/data_interop/FME_Workbench/Workbench/reading-writing-data.htm

Each different FME edition differs only in the formats available. Only the FME Desktop Base Edition has a different (more limited) set of functionality.

So it looks like to me, those formats were intentionally left out if you have more basic license of ArcGIS.

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

CaitRiggs — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 02:49:28 GMT

I did find a project on github that does the trick for Google's Location data ("Takeout" in JSON format)

GitHub - Scarygami/location-history-json-converter: Convert the Location History JSON File from Google Takeout into a us…

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

FlorianCADOZ — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:10:40 GMT

Hi Alice, Joshua and all the others,

You can also use the wonderfull online converter : GeoJSON to SHP Converter Online - MyGeodata Cloud

Work well with a lot of format ! 😃

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

DavidForbuss1 — Thu, 04 May 2017 23:33:15 GMT

Is there any way to batch convert JSON files? I have a folder with 20+ JSON files that I need to convert into one shapefile.

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

JoshuaBixby — Fri, 05 May 2017 00:38:36 GMT

There are a lot of suggestions in this thread, did you try any of them? Converting 20 files isn't that much manually, unless you will be converting 20 files over and over as part of a weekly or daily process. Are you comfortable scripting or are you looking for a single tool to do it all for yo?

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

DavidForbuss1 — Tue, 09 May 2017 18:19:56 GMT

Hi Joshua,

I'm actually using this: GitHub - tannerjt/AGStoShapefile: Convert ArcGIS Server Dynamic Map Service to Shapefile, EsriJSON, and GeoJSON . The "bigdata" branch outputs multiple geojson/json files. I ended up using the merge function in QGIS to convert them into a usable shapefile. I wish I could just load GeoJSON and/or JSON files into ArcMap/PRO without having to convert them (maybe there is a way that I don't know about?).

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

JoshuaBixby — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 01:15:14 GMT

If Esri JSON is an option, which is seems like it is, then JSON To Features—Help | ArcGIS Desktop is about as close as you are going to get.

I understand and agree with your frustration. Esri's desktop clients (Pro and ArcMap) are focused around working with Esri's geodatabase model (including Esri's shape file) and Esri's REST API or Esri JSON, and more the former than the latter. It would take a fair amount of work, or maybe not, for Esri to support natively working with GeoJSON in their desktop clients. That said, I find the current "support" to be fairly weak. For example, why does Features to JSON support exporting GeoJSON but JSON to Features doesn't support importing GeoJSON? It isn't like cryptography and one-way functions, the GeoJSON protocol is just as easy to work in either direction.

At the end of the day, if Esri continues to set the bar low for their support of certain open standards like GeoJSON, it will continue to create an opportunity and reason for people to explore other tools like QGIS.

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

DavidWasserman — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 16:35:38 GMT

While I agree the best approach is to actually do this task in QGIS (same for KML import export), I have had some success getting a Gist to work with at least point features. If anyone has any thoughts for improvements, let me know.

This gist is intended to share a sample worker function to write Geojson to an ArcGIS Feature Class using Arcpy. · GitH…

Re: Converting geoJson to shapefile

AndreaParish — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:34:03 GMT

mapshaper worked like a charm!