What is the difference between Zipped ESRI Shapefile / Geodatabase and .gz?
- Extension
- .zip
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- GIS
- Compressed
- Developer
- ESRI
- The GNU Project
- Description
- A ZIP file holding an Esri shapefile (.shp, .shx, .dbf and companions) or a file geodatabase folder, the usual way GIS vector data is downloaded and shared.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz