What is a Shapefile? A Shapefile is a GIS file in which vectors like points, lines, and polygons are used to represent geo locations like rivers, lakes, country boundaries, well, and more.

A common primary key was established (DAUID) and created in Microsoft Excel to create a relationship between the shapefiles attribute information in ArcGIS. The census data was then saved as a ...

File Format - Data formats used were Shapefile and DEM. The DEM file was converted into ASCII through ESRI's ARCMAP. Projection - Daturms were converted from GDA 84 and GDA94, to WGS 1984 UTM 55s.

It is a popular format developed and maintained by Esri for use in GIS products. Google Earth Pro, it turns out, has built-in support for importing shape files.