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A vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. Often referred to as 'an ESRI shapefile', as ESRI developed it.

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File size limitation for shapefile

My understanding is that the shapefile format has not changed since this 1998 document. …
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How to publish shapefiles with GeoServer?

There is a Publishing a Shapefile tutorial available online for GeoServer that seems to describe the steps you are after. …
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How to get maximum value where two shapefiles overlap using ArcGIS for Desktop 10.1?

To do this you would first Union (keep all fields) the two shapefiles together and add a numeric field called say MaxValue. Then, assuming you have values from shapefile1 and shapefile2 called val1 a …
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Applying Canadian Postal Code areas in shapefile to Google Earth?

If you have downloaded a shapefile then you should be able to import that into Google Earth Pro but not standard Google Earth as described in Importing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data in Google …
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Can colon (":") character be used in shapefile field names?

According to the same Esri article that you cite: These limits are imposed so that ArcGIS is able to function with the maximum amount of data types. Consequently, even if you are not prevented …
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Checking spatial system reference of shapefile without opening ArcGIS or any other GIS softw...

If your shapefile is called roads.shp, look for a file called roads.prj and open it in a text editor like Notepad. …
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Adding shapefiles to ArcGIS Pro that only contain xxxx characters

I think you will be able to do this by having your Map open in ArcGIS Pro, and using Windows Explorer to search for files using *epso.shp. If you see just the shapefiles that you want in your Search …
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Version problems with Geotools CSV2SHP example

The asker figured it out. There are two very similar pages, one written for 9.x and then modified for 10.x and re-posted. He'd found both through Google and had them open alongside a lot of other tab …
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Seeking tool to Convert Shapefile (.shp) to GTFS?

Note that: A file geodatabase feature class is recommended for tool input instead of a shapefile because some field names allowed by the GTFS specification are longer than the maximum of 10 characters … allowed for shapefile field names. …
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Setting custom spatial reference/coordinate system to shapefile using ArcPy?

There's a Python code example for doing this under Define Projection.
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Unable to explode multipart polygon

I'm thinking along the same lines as @Stephen Lead. In Workstation days, anything with corruption hard to clear was usually a candidate for UNGENERATE/GENERATE so it could be sorted in a text editor. …
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Advantages either way between GML and Shapefiles?

There is an existing comparison of vector formats that includes these two in Wikipedia. If you uncover any clear Pros and Cons here, I recommend you update that, and/or add a link there which comes t …
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How to convert OSM data to a projected Coordinate system

Try WeoGeo - it is a while since I gave their free OpenStreetMap download service a successful test but I believe it will meet your requirements.
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Vector TileGrid (fishnet) Shapefile to X Y min / X Y max txt file

This code from yours should be close: # Import arcpy module import arcpy # Local variables: Shapefile = r"C:\temp\test.shp" # Process: Add Field arcpy.AddField_management(Shapefile, "TileID", "TEXT" … ") # Process: Calculate Field arcpy.CalculateField_management(Shapefile, "MinX", "! …
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Changing spatial extent of shapefile using ArcGIS Desktop?

As others have commented, it is hard to envisage a use case where you would want the extent stored with a shapefile to be other than the features that it contains. …
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