What is the difference between Zipped ESRI Shapefile / Geodatabase and .xz?
- Extension
- .zip
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- GIS
- Compressed
- Developer
- ESRI
- Tukaani
- 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.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-xz