Comments on: The Ultimate List of GIS Formats and Geospatial File Extensions https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/ Geographic Information Systems Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:23:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Mustafa https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-471061 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:23:56 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-471061 Very good compilation and a nice journey to good old GIS days. Thanks for your effort. Please note that the definitions of Geoparquet and Adobe Geospatial .PDF are exact duplicates.

]]> By: TO https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-375122 Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:13:57 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-375122 you can add SOSI format

]]> By: GISGeography https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-311159 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 11:41:10 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-311159 In reply to Chazz C.

Yes, you’re right. I made that update. Thanks!

]]> By: Chazz C https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-310966 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 01:33:11 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-310966 Thank you for compiling this list!! I’ve been searching for one. It looks like the GeoJSON description accidentally has the same description as GPX.

]]> By: Dan Jacobson https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-302205 Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:42:33 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-302205 Extension and File Type are swapped in the table headers.

]]> By: Helen Grives https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-293663 Fri, 05 May 2023 07:29:03 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-293663 Hey, Thank you for the list. I just started out with Dutch geo data. NLExtract. This list is a good entry point for a quick overview. The comments are very useful in order to quickly grasp where to look for the next knowledge gap.

]]> By: Nikhil https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-267232 Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:48:33 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-267232 You missed WKT

]]> By: Florent https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-257719 Fri, 21 Jan 2022 13:07:42 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-257719 Thanks for the great list!
What about layer style formats? Like SLD for instance.
Concerning the “Web File Format” section, I think it should be rewritten or a new section “Web services” should be created. OGC services (WMS, WFS, WCS, etc.) and ArcGIS geoservices are not file formats but services that can serve geospatial information in many different file formats. The definition of WFS and WMS are also not really correct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Geospatial_Consortium#Standards).

]]> By: Nick https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-250230 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 19:52:41 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-250230 Hi!

I would love it if you added the following file formats:

.ecd, which I know to be the Esri Classifier Definition file type, and .TIL, for which I can’t seem to find it’s official name…

Thanks for this compilation!

]]> By: Matt Wilkie https://gisgeography.com/gis-formats/#comment-136631 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:17:23 +0000 http://gisgeography.com/?p=5189#comment-136631 ArcInfo GRID format does have an extension: .ADF, however like shapes and filegdb there is more than one file on disk for a single raster. More info at https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/arcinfo_grid_format.html

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