- Extension
- .tab
- .shp
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- GIS
- GIS
- Developer
- Precisely
- ESRI
- Description
- A MapInfo TAB dataset describes geographic features and their attributes. Its text .tab header refers to companion .dat, .map and .id files, which must be kept together. It is not tab-separated text (TSV).
- Data set used by ESRI ArcView, a geographic analysis application; stores a collection of geographic features, such as streets, points of interest, and zip code boundaries; can be used to store point, line, or area features.
- MIME Type
- application/x-mapinfo
- application/x-esri-shp
