Montana's State Historic commission require shapefiles to be submitted for all areas that are classified as historic. #magip #shapefiles

@jbzfn I still see dbase references show up in code. Theres a proprietary file format for geospatial data called #Shapefiles that have been around for decades. They include a sidecar DBF file that has reference headers for dbase. The format is slow to render and limited to a few hundred thousand rows. Columns were restricted to 7 characters. Awful to work with. Every time I see a DBF, I think about George Tate and the early database hustle.
[1] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000326.shtml
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/14/obituaries/george-tate-is-dead-at-40-computer-software-leader.html

Missed your 25th birthday @shapefiIe (July 1998); that is 175 years in technology years! 🙃 😜 🤔 😁
(and some are worried about Joe Biden!)
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Nothing personal, but #shapefilesmustdie
https://www.gis-blog.com/geopackage-vs-shapefile/
#GIS #spatial #mapping #shapefiles #geopackage #moderntechnology #technology #mappymeme

I'm on a new project at work to create, store, and programmatically analyze datacenter building plans, eg. Calculating lengths of cable runs. I used to work in #gis, and remember just enough to know that all my approaches are hopelessly naive. Are #shapefiles still a viable option for low-ceremony vendor neutral structured #spatial analysis? (Probably from Python) cc. @sgillies

Is there anyone out there that knows #ArcGIS really well that would be willing to help me with something next week? I have a few different #maps and #shapefiles I need to overlay for one clean, cohesive figure (insets okay) w/ correct #projections, etc. DM me for more info!