What is the difference between Zipped ESRI Shapefile / Geodatabase and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .zip
- .tar.bz2
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2