Data format standards

These standards describe encodings for geographic information:

• Esri Shapefile Technical Description (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/IEC 8211:1994 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