Features
Vector formats

Vector formats


GEOJSON

GeoJSON is a format for encoding a variety of geographic data structures.GeoJSON supports the following geometry types: Point, LineString, Polygon, MultiPoint, MultiLineString, and MultiPolygon. Geometric objects with additional properties are Feature objects. Sets of features are contained by FeatureCollection objects.


SHP

The shapefile format (shp) is a format developed by Esri to store geospatial vector data and attributes. It can contain points, lines and polygons.

FileDescription
*.shpShape file containing the vector data
*.dbfdBASE table file containing the feature attributes of the shapes
*.cpgA plain text file which specifies the codepage number and which is used to identify the character encoding of the .shp file.
*.shxIndex file containing the offset of each record from the beginning of the main file
.sbn/.sbxOptional spatial index files.

KML

Keyhole Markup Language (KML) is an XML-based file format for storing and visualizing geographic data in Earth browsers. The file format was originally developed by Keyhole Inc. for use with their Earth Viewer application, which is currently known as Google Earth.

FileDescription
*.kmlA KML file
*.kmzZip archive containing a KML (.kml) file and possibly other resources

GML

The Open Geospatial Consortium's (OGC) Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML-based data format for describing, storing and exchanging geographical data.

FileDescription
_.gml, _.gml2, _.gml31, _.gml32, *.xmlGML data file
*.xsdApplication schema (XML Schema)

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