{"id":6559,"date":"2021-11-20T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/kb\/uncategorized\/esri-shapefile-shapefile-shp\/"},"modified":"2021-11-20T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T13:18:05","slug":"esri-shapefile-shapefile-shp","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/usemaps-documentation\/definitions\/esri-shapefile-shapefile-shp\/","title":{"rendered":"ESRI Shapefile (shapefile, SHP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-640\">\n<div class=\"bpress-article-content\">\n<p>ESRI Shapefile is a file format for storing spatial data along with attributes, developed a long time ago by the company ESRI.<\/p>\n<p>A Shapefile is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>cumbersome, because it actually consists of several files (.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj), and losing any of these component files makes it impossible to open in GIS software,<\/li>\n<li>inconvenient, because an attribute name can have a maximum of 10 characters, and an attribute value a maximum of 256 characters,  <\/li>\n<li>prone to corruption, because it is a closed binary format,<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>but:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It is widely loved by GIS users and, despite its drawbacks, remains the most popular format.<\/li>\n<li>It can be opened by virtually any software, including QGIS.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In the System:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>data can be exported to the Shapefile format<\/li>\n<li>a data source can be created based on a Shapefile.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<nav class=\"bpress-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"bpress-votes\" data-post=\"640\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESRI Shapefile is a file format for storing spatial data along with attributes, developed a long time ago by the company ESRI. A Shapefile is: cumbersome, because it actually consists of several files (.shp, .shx, .dbf, .prj), and losing any of these component files makes it impossible to open in GIS software, inconvenient, because an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[83],"knowledgebase_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6559","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/6559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/6559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usemaps.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}