Use
ArcView |
Working With Shapefile |
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A Shapefile is the Arc View GIS format for stroring geometry and attribute information for a set of geographic features. The geometry for a feature is strored as a shape comprised of a set of vector (point, line & polygon) coordinates. |
| The Shapefile Format |
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.shp |
Stores the feature geometry (shape and location iinformation) |
| .shx | Stores the index of the feature geometry |
| .dbf | A dBASE file that strores the attribute information for the features |
| .sbn & .sbx | Used for indexing spatial data |
| .ain & .aix | Used for indexing attribute data |
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.avl |
Stores the legend of spatial data |