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Preferred term

Esri Shape  

Definition

  • SHP – shapefile format – is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software. Esri shapefile is a zip archive that contains at least the shp, shx and dbf files.

Entry terms

  • Environmental Systems Research Institute Shape

Identifier

  • SHP

Notation

  • application/x-shapefile
  • .dbf
  • .shp
  • .shx

In other languages

  • Esri Shape

    Estonian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/file-type/SHP

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