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Delivery Format
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Components
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Roads is a vector data product and is made available in a national supply for those formats that can store the size of data and maintain the data’s spatial precision.
Vector data formats and the availability of a national file for each format is detailed in the below table.

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: https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
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| **Language:**
| English

MapInfo TAB
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| **Format Name:**
| TAB – MapInfo Professional
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| **Specification:**
| This format includes files with the following extensions: \*.tab, \*.dat, \*.id, \*.map
| 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. TAB files support geospatial standards such as Open GIS, the OGC, ISO, W3C and others.
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| **Language:**
| English

File Geodatabase
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| **Format Name:**
| File Geodatabase – ESRI
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| **Specification:**
| This format includes files with the following extensions: \*.gdb
| ESRI File Geodatabase Technical Description. Follow this link: https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/latest/manage-data/administer-file-gdbs/file-geodatabases.htm
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| **Language:**
| English


GeoJSON
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| **Format Name:**
| GeoJSON
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| **Specification:**
| This format includes files with the following extensions: \*.geojson
| GeoJSON specification: tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7946
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| **Language:**
| English

.. note::
    The GeoJSON specification states that the coordinate reference system for all GeoJSON coordinates is: “a geographic coordinate reference system, using the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) datum, with longitude and latitude units of decimal degrees”.

    **Roads will be provided with coordinates using the datum selected for download (GDA94/GDA2020) with longitude and latitude units of decimal degrees.**