How can I convert coverages to something I can use in ArcGIS Pro?

[JosephKerski]

I have coverages that my users in education downloaded from FAO... but they only have Pro and not ArcMap. How can they convert these coverages to something they can use in ArcGIS Pro?  ... such as a shapefile or a gdb feature class?

Thank you.

--Joseph Kerski 

[EricBowman1]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm using this in my grad class tonight. 

[juliaharrell2]

GDAL/OGR is your friend. It can read an ArcINFO binary coverage, and write out a shapefile, or file geodatabase

http://www.gdal.org/drv_avcbin.html

[EricBowman1]

@JosephKerski  -  well 5 years later, I'm using this in my spatial databases course where the professor gives us coverages to convert. I only have ArcGIS Pro on my laptop and this saved the day.  Haven't used coverages in ages. 

[JosephKerski]

So glad it was useful… Joseph Kerski.