TransCAD supports over 50 file types and more than 100 GIS and CAD formats. You can map Esri Shapefiles, MapInfo TAB files, and Oracle Spatial or Microsoft SQL Server tables directly, or use the built-in translators to import geographic data from a variety of other software packages and public sources. This extensive library of importers and exporters (see the table below) is one of the largest in the industry and comes at no additional charge. This makes TransCAD the perfect choice for a new GIS purchase because you can work with your existing installation or easily migrate your data from your current GIS software.
You can also use raster images such as satellite or aerial photographs directly in your maps. TransCAD includes toolboxes for quickly accessing on-line images from OpenGIS Web Map Services and Google Earth. These images can be used as a means of reference or in conjunction with the map editing tools to create or edit geographic files.
A built-in interface to Global Positioning System (GPS) devices lets you track and record your location and build geographic databases as you work. With a GPS and a laptop, users in the field can create accurate geographic files of public utilities, corporate facilities, geographic features, and more.
Support for GIS and CAD file formats, GTFS, and GPS
Support for MrSID, GeoTIFF, JPEG, online imagery, and more
| Map, GIS, and CAD formats supported in TransCAD | Import | Open | Export | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoCAD Drawing Binary Files | DWG |
 |
- | - |
| AutoCAD Drawing Exchange format files (version R14 and earlier) | DXF |
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- |
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| Caliper Compact Data Format files | CDF | N/A |
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| Caliper Route System Data Format files | RTS | N/A |
|
- |
| Caliper Standard Data Format files | DBD | N/A |
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| DeLorme (Street Atlas/Topo USA) drawing file | AN1 | |
- | - |
| Digital Elevation Model files (USGS, NOAA, DTED, Esri Binary) | DEM; G03; G98; DT0; DT1; DT2; FLT |
|
- | - |
| Digital Line Graph format files (USGS, NWI, NATSGO, STATSGO, SURGO) | DLG; OPT; STD; LGO; LGS; GRF;
0AF; 0SF; ATT; SYM |
|
- | - |
| Digitizing tablets | Wintab compliant drivers | - |
|
- |
| Esri Arc ASCII Grid | ASC, ADF | |
- | - |
| Esri ArcSDE File Geodatabase (requires ArcGIS to be installed) | SDE | |
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| Esri ArcView 3.x Project files and Legend Files | APR; AVL | - | |
- |
| Esri Feature Class | GDB | |
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| Esri File Geodatabase | GDB | |
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| Esri Export format files | E00 | |
- | - |
| Esri Personal Geodatabase files | MDB | |
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- |
| Esri Shapefiles | SHP | |
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| Esri Ungenerate format files | LIN; PTS | |
- | |
| ETAK MapBase format files | MBS |
|
- | - |
| FlatGeobuf | FGB | |
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| Garmin MapSource | GDB | |
- | - |
| General Transit Feed Specification | GTFS | |
- | - |
| GeoJson | GEOJSON; JSON | |
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| Google Earth Documents | KML; KMZ | |
- | |
| GPS playback data files | GPS | - |
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| GPS device serial port | NMEA 0183 | - |
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- |
| GPX GPS Exchange format | GPX |
|
- | |
| Intergraph Design files (ISFF or V7) | DGN |
|
- | - |
| Interim Terrain Data (ITD) files | SLF |
|
- | - |
| MapInfo Interchange Format files | MIF |
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- |
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| MapInfo TAB files | TAB |
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|
- |
| Metadata (Federal Geographic Data Committee standard) | MET | - |
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| Microsoft AutoRoute | AXE | |
- | - |
| Microsoft MapPoint | PTM | |
- | - |
| Microsoft Streets & Trips | EST | |
- | - |
| Microsoft MapPoint route waypoints | AXE; EST; PTM | |
- | - |
| Microsoft MapPoint Territory Layer with no data fields | AXE; EST; PTM | |
- | - |
| Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Layer | MSSQL; MDF | |
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| National Transportation Atlas Dataset (NTAD) format files | PNT; LNK; NOD; GEO; |
|
- | - |
| ODBC database with coordinates for points files | ODBC (SQL etc.) |
|
|
- |
| OpenStreetMap files | OSM |
|
- | - |
| Oracle Version 12c (and previous versions e.g., 7, 8i) Oracle Spatial databases | SDO |
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| Ordnance Survey NTF format files | NTF |
|
- | - |
| Planning Interim Terrain Data (PITD) | SLF |
|
- | - |
| Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) files | DDF |
|
- | - |
| Strategic Mapping (Atlas) Boundary ASCII format files | BNA |
|
- |
|
| TIGER/Line files (TIGER 1990-2006, TIGER Compressed) | F41; F51; F61; BW1; RT1; ZIP; TX1 |
|
- | - |
| U.S. Geological Survey Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) files | GIR |
|
- | - |
| Vector Product Format (VPF) files |
|
- | - | |
| Image (raster/vector) formats supported in TransCAD | Open | Export | ||
| Animated GIF | GIF | - | |
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| Bitmap (including True Color) | BMP |
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| CMYK TIFF | TIF | |
- | |
| Compressed TIFF | TIF | |
- | |
| Enhanced Compressed Wavelet | ECW |
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- | |
| Enhanced metafile | EMF | - |
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| GeoTIFF | TIF |
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- | |
| GIF | GIF |
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| Icon images | ICO |
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- | |
| JPEG | JPG; JPEG |
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| JPEG2000 | JP2 |
|
- | |
| Mapbox Image Tiles | MBTILES | |
- | |
| MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database) | SID |
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- | |
| MrSID Generation 3 and Generation 4 | SID |
|
- | |
| Portable Document Format (requires PDF printer driver) | - |
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| Portable Network Graphics | PNG |
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| Scalable Vector Graphics | SVG | |
- | |
| SPOT MetroView satellite images | BIL; TIF |
|
- | |
| SPOTView satellite images | BIL; TIF |
|
- | |
| TIFF | TIF |
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| U.S. Geological Survey digital rectified aerial photographs (Digital Orthophotos, including Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quad image format | DOQ; DOQQ |
|
- | |
| WMS Service Specification .xml (Tiled Web Map Services) | XML | |
- | |
| Database/table/spreadsheet formats supported in TransCAD | Import | Open | Export | |
| All ODBC sources (e.g., Access, DB2, Informix, Ingres, InterBase, NetWare SQL, Paradox, Progress, SQL Base, SQL Server, Sybase) |
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|
- | |
| Caliper dataview | DVW | N/A |
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| Caliper fixed-format binary | BIN | N/A |
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| Comma- and tab-delimited text (read-only) | CSV; TXT |
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| dBASE/FoxPro/X-base | DBF |
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| Fixed-format text | ASC |
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| HTML table | HTM | - | - |
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| Microsoft Access tables | MDB; ACCDB |
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- |
| Microsoft Excel Worksheet | XLS; XLSX; XLSM |
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| Microsoft SQL Server Table | MSSQLD |
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- |
| ODBC SQL Query (ODBCQ) | ODBCQ |
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- |
| ODBC table (ODBC) | ODBC (SQL,etc.) |
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- |
| Oracle tables | NTF |
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- |
| PostgreSQL Table | |
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- | |
| SQLite Table | DB | - | - | |
| Multimedia formats supported in TransCAD | Open | Export | ||
| Windows Media Video | WMV |
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| Video | ASF, MP4, MOV, M4V, 3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, 3GP2 | |
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| Image Servers supported by TransCAD | Open | Export | ||
| Google Earth satellite images |
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| Microsoft/USGS MSR Maps |
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- | ||
| OGC WMS Open GIS Consortium "WMS" standard for image servers |
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