Hi, I'm new to GIS software in general. I survey plants and have a bunch of points mapped in Google Earth Pro that are all organized in nesting folders - What year, what month, and finally what species. Each point has it's own description as well.
If I add the KML file to my ArcGIS project it looks fine and normal - all the folders are there as nodes, and nested correctly.
But I want to convert them to a feature layer so I can add temporal data - when I use the "KML to Layer" tool, it simply puts all the data into "Points" or "Polygons."
I think I figured out a slow way to re-organize them correctly - selecting points by their attributes in the table and moving each group to its own layer, then grouping the layers...but is there a faster way? Is there any way to keep all of that organizational information when I convert it?
