2. Data Types and Formats

Created Monday 10 November 2014 - Map Class

• Raster
  • Images JPEG2000, GeoTIFF
• Vector
  • Point
  • Line, MultiLine
  • Polygon, Multipolygon
• Formats
  • ShapeFile
    • By ESRI
    • Package .shp (shape), .shx(index), .dbf (attributes)
  • Well Known Text (WKT)
    • Text format
    • Eg: POINT (30 10), LINESTRING (30 10, 10 30, 40 40)
• Web-Formats
  • KML
  • GeoJSON/TopoJSON