I have a office floorplan that is a standard Visio drawing file (*.VSD) that I would like to convert into a GIS feature class (shapefile, GDB, PostGIS, or any other applicable format, it doesn't matter much).

A couple of options occurred to me, but I am wondering if anyone know of any other tools/techniques for converting a Visio file to a feature layer?

My ideas:

• Simply load the VSD file into a Desktop GIS software and heads-up digitize the features (walls, doors, cubical's, network ports, etc)

• Convert the Visio to Raster, then using ArcScan to help automate the generation of feature linework.

Another idea I found in the question: Transforming Visio polygon to shapefile? was to:

• "export Visio Shapes (file, save as) to a .dxf (AutoCAD exchange file)", which seems like it might be the easiest method I have found so far.

What additional tools, techniques, ideas, or suggestions might I be overlooking? My preference would be to use ArcGIS 10.0 tools to accomplish this task, but am open to other possibilities.

I have a office floorplan that is a standard Visio drawing file (*.VSD) that I would like to convert into a GIS feature class (shapefile, GDB, PostGIS, or any other applicable format, it doesn't matter much).

A couple of options occurred to me, but I am wondering if anyone know of any other tools/techniques for converting a Visio file to a feature layer?

My ideas:

• Simply load the VSD file into a Desktop GIS software and heads-up digitize the features (walls, doors, cubical's, network ports, etc)
• Convert the Visio to Raster, then using ArcScan to help automate the generation of feature linework.

Another idea I found in the question: Transforming Visio polygon to shapefile? was to:

• "export Visio Shapes (file, save as) to a .dxf (AutoCAD exchange file)", which seems like it might be the easiest method I have found so far.

My preference would be to use ArcGIS 10.0 tools to accomplish this task, but am open to other possibilities.

I have a office floorplan that is a standard Visio drawing file (*.VSD) that I would like to convert into a GIS feature class (shapefile, GDB, PostGIS, or any other applicable format, it doesn't matter much).

A couple of options occurred to me, but I am wondering if anyone know of any other tools/techniques for converting a Visio file to a feature layer?

My ideas:

• Simply load the VSD file into a Desktop GIS software and heads-up digitize the features (walls, doors, cubical's, network ports, etc)

• Convert the Visio to Raster, then using ArcScan to help automate the generation of feature linework.

Another idea I found in the question: Transforming Visio polygon to shapefile? was to:

• "export Visio Shapes (file, save as) to a .dxf (AutoCAD exchange file)", which seems like it might be the easiest method I have found so far.

What additional tools, techniques, ideas, or suggestions might I be overlooking? My preference would be to use ArcGIS 10.0 tools to accomplish this task, but am open to other possibilities.

I have a office floorplan that is a standard Visio drawing file (*.VSD) that I would like to convert into a GIS feature class (shapefile, GDB, PostGIS, or any other applicable format, it doesn't matter much).

A couple of options occurred to me, but I am wondering if anyone know of any other tools/techniques for converting a Visio file to a feature layer?

My ideas:

• Simply load the VSD file into a Desktop GIS software and heads-up digitize the features (walls, doors, cubical's, network ports, etc)

• Convert the Visio to Raster, then using ArcScan to help automate the generation of feature linework.

Another idea I found in the question: Transforming Visio polygon to shapefile? was to:

• "export Visio Shapes (file, save as) to a .dxf (AutoCAD exchange file)", which seems like it might be the easiest method I have found so far.

What additional tools, techniques, ideas, or suggestions might I be overlooking? My preference would be to use ArcGIS 10.0 tools to accomplish this task, but am open to other possibilities.