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Click on the folder button next to the "Add layer" button and click "Export to KML", then click "Download" and save it somewhere on your computer. Unzip the .kmz file you downloaded, inside should be a .kml file. (You might have to change the file extension to .zip first) Open the .kml file with a text editor (preferably Notepad++).
Either click on the KML file link, or right-click on the link and select "Download file as..." (or a similar option) A file index.php will be presented for download (containing the KML content) Rename the file so that it ends in .kml (index.kml for example) Download the file.
The contents of a KMZ file are a single root KML document and optionally any overlays, images, icons, and COLLADA 3D models referenced in the KML including network-linked KML files. The root KML document by convention is a file named "doc.kml" at the root directory level, which is the file loaded upon opening.
.qix — an alternative quadtree spatial index used by MapServer and GDAL/OGR software {content-type: x-gis/x-shapefile} In each of the .shp, .shx, and .dbf files, the shapes in each file correspond to each other in sequence (i.e., the first record in the .shp file corresponds to the first record in the .shx and .dbf files, etc.).
Another development in the 1990s was the public release of proprietary file formats by GIS software vendors, enabling them to be used by other software. The most notable example of this was the publication of the Esri Shapefile format, [ 5 ] which by the late 1990s had become the most popular de facto standard for data sharing by the entire ...
Spatial Data File – high-performance geodatabase format, native to MapGuide (by Autodesk) TIGER – Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing Vector Product Format – National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)'s format of vectored data for large geographic databases
QGIS is a geographic information system (GIS) software that is free and open-source. [2] QGIS supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. [3] It supports viewing, editing, printing, and analysis of geospatial data in a range of data formats. Its name comes from an abbreviation of its previous name, Quantum GIS.
The Geography Markup Language (GML) is the XML grammar defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) to express geographical features. GML serves as a modeling language for geographic systems as well as an open interchange format for geographic transactions on the Internet.