- Extension
- .zip
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- GIS
- Compressed
- Developer
- ESRI
- GNU
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-compressed
