I've recently been given a set of files to work on/analyze with QGIS, but they seem to be missing any .shp files.
Basically, the data is organized into a bunch of folders labelled land, water, etc. and in each of the folders are a few .dbf files and then a bunch of files with no extensions. Here's an excerpt from one of the ones with no extension that I opened in a text editor:
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All the files with no extension look something like that; I've tried converting them into .shp files but QGIS still can't understand them. Do I need the .shp to do anything ?
.dbf
files? Are you sure they really don't have any extension or that Windows (or your operating system) isn't hiding the extensions because that's set in the operating system? Any chance you can make any of this available to us? Or you may have to go back to the source and ask them for more. – Spacedman Aug 13 '20 at 9:35