What is the difference between Zipped ESRI Shapefile / Geodatabase and .tar.gz?
- Extension
- .zip
- .tar.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.
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/gzip
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz