Open Source Alternatives to Shapefile

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What is Shapefile?

Shapefile is a geospatial vector data format for geographic information system (GIS) software, developed by Esri for storing location and attribute data.. There is currently 1 open-source alternative to Shapefile, with a combined total of 1.0k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is JavaScript.

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geobufmapbox/geobuf

A compact binary encoding for geographic data that compresses GeoJSON into protocol buffers for faster and smaller transfers.

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28 days ago

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