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What is shapefiles?

A shapefile is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems (GIS) software. It is used to store the geometric location and attribute information of geographic features. Shapefiles are commonly used to represent points, lines, and polygons, and are often used to store the boundaries of countries, rivers, lakes, and other geographic features.

What other technologies are related to shapefiles?

shapefiles Competitor Technologies

A free and open-source GIS software package that competes with ArcGIS.
mentioned alongside shapefiles in 0% (110) of relevant job posts

shapefiles Complementary Technologies

A common data storage format for geospatial data, often used with shapefiles.
mentioned alongside shapefiles in 35% (132) of relevant job posts
A lightweight format for encoding geographic data structures, often used for web mapping.
mentioned alongside shapefiles in 15% (212) of relevant job posts
An XML-based file format for geographic data, often used with Google Earth.
mentioned alongside shapefiles in 14% (110) of relevant job posts

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