ESRI Shapefile

• Name: ESRI Shapefile
• Alternative Name: SHP
• Specification URI: https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
• Maintainer: ESRI Inc.
• Disciplines: Remote Sensing, Earth Science
• Description: A shapefile stores nontopological geometry and attribute information for the spatial features in a data set. The geometry for a feature is stored as a shape comprising a set of vector coordinates.