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The shapefile format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software, developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products.
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It is stored as a set of related files and contains one feature class.
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The shapefile format is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software . It is developed and regulated by Esri as a mostly open specification for data interoperability among Esri and other GIS software products
Shapefile - Wikipedia
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A shapefile is an Esri vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. It is stored as a set of related files and contains one feature class.
Shapefiles—ArcGIS Online Help | Documentation
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Shapefiles The shapefile is a common standard for representing geospatial vector data. There are several ways of working with Openstreetmap data and shapefiles.
Shapefiles - OpenStreetMap Wiki
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What File Extensions are Associated with a Shapefile? All shapefile files must have the same name but have different extensions. There are three required files ...
What is a Shapefile? - GIS Lounge
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Format Description for ESRI_shape -- The Shapefile format stores non-topological geometry and attribute information for the spatial features in a data set. The ...
ESRI Shapefile
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ArcGIS shapefile files are composed of mandatory files (SHP, SHX and DBF) and optional files (PRJ, XML, SBN and SBX). This article lists their functions.
ArcGIS Shapefile Files Types & Extensions
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The core TIGER/Line Files and Shapefiles do not include demographic data, but they do contain geographic entity codes (GEOIDs) that can be linked to the Census ...
TIGER/Line Shapefiles
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