Timeline for Multi-geometry shapefiles
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 15:27 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 1, 2015 at 15:55 | history | edited | Brad Nesom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2015 at 1:16 | comment | added | Vince | Just because the specification for shapefiles is open doesn't mean it's an open file type. If you were to create a "shapefile" with multiple geometry types, it wouldn't in fact be a shapefile, but corrupt data in the guise of a shapefile (and unable to be shared usefully). And that wouldn't address the core complaint of the OP -- shapefiles are still at least three physical files (and .prj would make four). | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 22:19 | comment | added | Michael Stimson | Nice! Shapefiles supporting more than one geometry type, maybe so under the strict implementation of the current spec, I can say for sure that Esri doesn't support it and I seriously doubt that OGR does either in its current state (therefore QGIS and all the other open source that uses OGR). Zipped shapefiles need to be unzipped before they can be used. If this implementation becomes utilized that may put an end to the shapefile being the common link between software. Perhaps Esri geodatabase would be an alternative: multiple feature classes, one file. | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 22:18 | comment | added | Inactivated Account | QGIS supports displaying and editing of zipped shapefiles...! | |
| Apr 30, 2015 at 22:08 | history | answered | Brad Nesom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |