Geospatial

File Format
Name	Geospatial
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Geospatial
Earth from Apollo 17

"When it comes to location data, the principle should be “location, location, location"

— Zoe Lofgren #CFP2013 (via Cory Doctorow)

Cross reference

See also:

• the Scientific Data formats section
• Coordinate system

Raster Formats

• ECW
• GeoJP2
• GeoTIFF
• GMLJP2
• HMR (Bentley Systems bitmap file, connected in some way to GeoTIFF)
• MrSID
• National Imagery Transmission Format
• PCRaster Map

Vector Formats

• E00 -- ArcInfo interchange file
• GeoJSON
• GeoPDF
• Geospatial PDF
• KML
• Mapsforge Binary Map
• National Transmission Format (NTF)
• Shapefile

Grid Formats

• Binary Terrain (BT)
• DEM
• HGT (NASA SRTM Elevation Data)

See also Raster Formats, above.

Point cloud

• LAS

Geographical coordinates

• Geo (Microformats)
• GPX

Mapping software

• ArcPad

Position logging

• consolidated.db - iPhone "secret" file logging where you've been

Sites, cloud services, and APIs

• Bing Maps
• Foursquare
• Google Maps
• Open Street Map
• Web Map Service (WMS)

Links

• Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and Decimal Degrees Latitude/Longitude Conversions
• What Happens to Google Maps When Tectonic Plates Move?
• On the Road converted to ebook of Google Maps directions
• Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Datasets
• Coordinate finder: shows a variety of coordinate systems on a map
• landsat-util: utilities to access Landsat images