Data format standards

These standards describe encodings for geographic information:

• Esri Shapefile (SHP)

• GeoTIFF Format Specification

• GMLJP2 (OGC GML in JPEG2000)

• HDF-5

• S-57 IHO, Transfer standard for digital hydrographic data

• ISO 19136:2007, Geographic information -- Geography Markup Language (GML)

• ISO 19162:2015, Geographic information -- Well known text representation of coordinate reference systems

• ISO/IEC 15444-1:2004, Information technology -- JPEG 2000 image coding system: Core coding system

• ISO/IEC8211:1994, Information technology -- Specification for a data descriptive file for information interchange

• OGC GeoPackage Encoding Standard

• OGC KML

• OGC Network Common Data Form (netCDF)

• Well known binary (WKB)

See also

• Standards#Groups of standards for geographic information