Delivery Format

Components

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.

Supplied Formats

MapInfo

Format name

TAB – MapInfo Professional

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.

Language

English

ESRI Shapefile

Format name

Shape – ESRI™

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

Language

English