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Supported Geo File Formats
Type Description
GeoJSON Uses the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) open data
standard for storing geographical features as key-value
pairs.
ESRI Shapefile Consists of a group of files (.shp, .shx, .dbf etc) that
need to be stored in the same directory or part of a zip
file. The .shp file contains the feature geometry itself.
KML Keyhole Markup Language is based on XML, using tag-based
structure with nested elements and attributes to store
geographic data.
CSV/TSV with WKT Well Known Text (WKT) is a text markup language for
representing vector geometry objects on a map.