shapefile

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005782",
  "term": "shapefile",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A shapefile stores non-topological geometry and attribute information for the spatial features in a dataset. The geometry for a feature is stored as a shape comprising a set of vector coordinates. Shapefiles can support point, line, and area features.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "vector data"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Glossary, data.gov",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "shapefile"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/shapefile/"
}