Format
Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File
Summary
- Name
- Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1729
- Format type
- GIS
- 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.
- Note
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile Specification: https://www.esri.com/content/dam/esrisites/sitecore-archive/Files/Pdfs/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
- File extensions
-
xml - Source
- Yan Han / University of Arizona Library
- Developed by
- Esri / Esri
- Supported by
- Esri / Esri
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File
- Note
- BOF, offset 0-250, magic bytes: <metadata xml:lang="en"><Esri> EOF offset 0-5: </metadata>
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 250
- Byte Sequence
3C6D6574616461746120786D6C3A6C616E673D22{2}223E{0-2}3C457372693E- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 5
- Byte Sequence
3C2F6D657461646174613E- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V108
- Release date
- 5 September 2022
Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File: Amended description of byte sequence to match bytes. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).
-
Added in V107
- Release date
- 21 July 2022
Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File: Signature researched and samples provided by Yan Han, University of Arizona.
Esri Shapefile Geospatial Metadata File: Full entry added. Submitted by Yan Han, University of Arizona.