Spatial Data Science: Spatial Data Storage
Introduction to alternative spatial data format; no shapefile!
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6 min readJun 7, 2022
A spatial data scientist works with spatial data in a spatial format. Typically this format is in “shapefile” format which was developed by ESRI in the 90’s. I expect readers of this article are familiar with “shapefile” before proceeding to the rest of the article as I will introduce you…