- Extension
- .zip
- .shp
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- GIS
- Developer
- Phil Katz
- ESRI
- 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.
- Data set used by ESRI ArcView, a geographic analysis application; stores a collection of geographic features, such as streets, points of interest, and zip code boundaries; can be used to store point, line, or area features.
- MIME Type
- application/zip
- application/x-esri-shp
