- Extension
- .zip
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- GIS
- Compressed
- Developer
- ESRI
- Igor Pavlov
- 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 format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-7z-compressed