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Delivery Format
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Components
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Electoral Boundaries is a vector data product and is made available for each state or territory in the formats listed below. The Australian Government releases Electoral Boundaries on data.gov.au in ESRI Shape and MapInfo TAB formats.


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Supplied Formats
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MapInfo
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| **Format name**
| TAB – MapInfo Professional
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| **Specification**
| The MapInfo TAB format is a popular geospatial vector data format for geographic information systems software. It is developed and regulated by MapInfo as a proprietary format. This format includes files with the following extensions: *.tab, *.dat, *.id, *.map
| TAB files support geospatial standards such as Open GIS, the OGC, ISO, W3C and others.
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| **Language**
| English


ESRI Shapefile
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| **Format name**
| Shape – ESRI™
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| **Specification**
| This format includes files with the following extensions: \*.shp, \*.shx, \*.dbf
| ESRI Shapefile Technical Description, an ESRI White Paper, July 1998. Follow this link: www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
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| **Language**
| English