This page describes the desktop additional tool “Convert”.
Tools > Convert
The Convert and Optimize Tools enable import, export, and possible data optimization of Reference Resources.
“Convert Data” converts any supported resources file into another supported resource file, one on one.
“Optimize Data” optimizes one or more supported resource files into a single Orbit optimized resource file.
One and the same sidebar is used to optimize all supported Reference Resource datatypes.
Optimizing original spherical images of mobile mapping resources to processed OMI images needs to be done using the “Optimize Imagery” procedure, see Optimize Imagery 1).
Set the source file or the source directory.
Set the target file when converting a source file, or the target directory when converting a source directory.
File storage options :
Options for Image data only.
BMP : Bitmap Image
See Wikipedia, BMP file format.
GIF : Graphics Interchange Format
See Wikipedia, GIF.
JPG, JPEG : Joint Photographic Experts Group
See Wikipedia, JPEG.
OMI : Orbit MultiResolution Image
See Orbit Multiresolution Image
TIFF : Tagged Image File Format
See Wikipedia, Tagged Image File Format.
The export storage format must support the dataset structure, see Vector Data Structure.
Options for vector data formats: *.GPX , *.KMZ , *.KML , *.DXF , *.OVF , *.OVT , *.OXF , *.SHP .
Options for Point Cloud data, see Orbit Point Cloud.