- Extension
- .zip
- .gml
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- GIS
- Developer
- Phil Katz
- Galdos Systems
- Description
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- Geography data format created by Galdos Systems and supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium; used by geographers for storing geographical data in a standard interchangeable format.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/gml+xml
