Timeline for What are the most useful formats in which to release geospatial data?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:33 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://gis.stackexchange.com/ with https://gis.stackexchange.com/ | |
| May 22, 2013 at 1:37 | comment | added | James McKinney | +1 to providing shapefiles first, and then others like KML, GeoJSON as requested. The tools for working with shapefiles are still way ahead of those for other formats. | |
| May 15, 2013 at 18:02 | vote | accept | nicksuch | ||
| May 13, 2013 at 12:59 | comment | added | JBecker | I agree with johnthexii about geoJSON. Not only is it easy to parse in virtually any language, it makes it easy to extract simpler components for beginning users to play with and understand. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 9:23 | comment | added | Jack Harrison | +1 for GeoJSON. GML is a more appropriate (open) format than Shapefile in theory, though I'd continue to supply Shapefiles as well as they tend to be more accessible to GIS users. | |
| May 13, 2013 at 7:38 | history | answered | John | CC BY-SA 3.0 |