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Format

ESRI Spatial Index File

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Summary

Name
ESRI Spatial Index File
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/319
Format type
GIS
Description
This is an outline record only, and requires further details, research or authentication to provide information that will enable users to further understand the format and to assess digital preservation risks associated with it if appropriate. If you are able to help by supplying any additional information concerning this entry, please return to the main PRONOM page and select ‘Add an Entry’.
File extensions
sbn, sbx
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

ESRI Spatial Index File

Note
Regularly recurring header sequence

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
None
Byte Sequence
0000270AFFFFFE700000000000000000000000000000000000{3}00[00:01]
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V55

    Release date
    4 January 2012

    ESRI Spatial Index File: Existing signature refined through PRONOM Research.

  • Added in V46

    Release date
    8 February 2011

    ESRI Spacial Index File: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    ESRI Spacial Index File: Outline entry added. Ongoing DROID research work following request from Archaeology Data Service.