Reference document

Org
ESRI
Pubnum
shapefile
Date
1998-07-01
Version
Title
ESRI Shapefile Technical Description

Applicability

This document defines the shapefile (.shp) spatial data format and describes why shapefiles are important. It lists the tools available in Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI), software for creating shapefiles directly or converting data into shapefiles from other formats. This document also provides all the technical information necessary for writing a computer program to create shapefiles without the use of ESRI software for organizations that want to write their own data translators.

Responsible Party

Name
Joint Geospatial Standard Working Group

Status

URI
http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf

History

Flag Date RFC Version
added 2010-12-07 5
changed 2017-01-14 9-17 10
deleted 2018-10-07 11-52 12
changed 2023-01-19 14-69 15
UUID
3e1b733c-e714-4c73-a7f4-1cd95e5ffe4e

Relationships

This standard is used by the following service profiles: