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Summary
Name	Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1729
Family
Classification	GIS
Disclosure
Description	Esri Shapefile (actually a collection of files), was introduced with ArcView GIS software in the early 1990s, but is now used within a wide variety of software. It enables geographical datasets to be used between Esri and other GIS software. Esri Shapefiles consist of a collection of files within a directory. They always have files with extension shp, shx and dbf. The actual shapefile is the .shp file, but the other files are required supporting files. The shp.xml file is not mandatory, and stores geospatial metadata in xml format.
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Byte order
Related file formats	Has priority over Extensible Markup Language (1.0)
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	Esri / Esri
Supported by	Esri / Esri
Source	Yan Han / University of Arizona Library
Source date	07 Jul 2022
Source description
Last updated	07 Jul 2022
Note	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile Specification: https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/sitecore-archive/Files/Pdfs/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf