Supported File Formats

Vector files in GIS

• ESRI Shapefile: SHP, SHX, DBF
• GeoJSON: JSON, GeoJSON
• TopoJSON: JSON, TopoJSON
• ESRI File Geodatabase: GDB
• Geography Markup Language: GML
• Google Earth: KML
• GPS Exchange Format: GPX
• MapInfo Interchange Format: MIF
• MapInfo Tab Format: TAB, DAT, DBF
• OpenStreetMap: OSM
• Comma-Separated Values: CSV

Databases

• PostgreSQL (PostGIS)
• SQL Server (MS SQL)

Raster files in GIS

• GeoTIFF: TIF, TIFF
• Esri ASCII / Esri grid: ASCII

Web Tiles

• XYZ Tiles: Slippy Maps

Rendering

• Scalable Vector Graphics: SVG
• Portable Network Graphics: PNG
• JPEG: JPEG, JPG
• Bitmap: BMP

Advanced GIS Data Manipulation API Features

• Create new layers and datasets or read features from existing files
• Create points, lines, and surfaces
• Build non-linear geometries
• Translate geometries to/from WKT and WKB
• Compute topological relation between geometries
• Compute an intersection, union or difference of any geometries
• Compute a buffer region around a geometry
• Render maps to SVG, PNG, JPEG, or BMP
• Combine several symbolizers to perform complex drawing
• Calculate styling parameters of a feature basing on values of its attributes
• Reproject individual geometries and entire layers
• Import spatial reference systems from WKT, export spatial reference systems to WKT
• Look up spatial reference systems by SRID
• Convert data to a lot of supported formats
• Perform reprojection while converting data
• Work with spatial data in PostgreSQL and SQL Server
• Build spatial indexes to speed up spatial queries
• Read band values from GeoTIFF raster format