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.