Bruce Harris & Associates currently has created several programs to ease the conversion from CAD or Arc/Info coverage to the ESRI Geodatabase. Our technicians are well versed at creating any additional programs for custom conversions to ensure a successful project. One program that we currently use in conversion processes is our Feature Distributor. This program examines a data source feature by feature and copies each to the appropriate feature class in the geodatabase. While copying the feature, any calculations on attribute items are performed at that time. The Feature Distributor tool can be run from an ArcToolbox tool, model, or script in ArcMap 9.0.

The effort required to perform a large-scale conversion would lie in the data preparation. We have the staff and expertise to prepare data for conversion. This preparation can range from data clean up to manual mapping adjustments to new orthophotography. We also can provide a link of existing annotation to the appropriate polygon features so that all desired feature linked annotation will be functional from the beginning.