ESRI Shapefile
For ESRI Shapefile, format is ESRI Shapefile / DBF; built-in by default is This driver is built-in by default; write support is Supports Create(); field name length limit is up to 10 characters; supported field types is Only Integer, Integer64, Real, String and Date (not DateTime, just year/month/day) field types are supported. The various list, and binary field types cannot be created, recorded from its source on 2026-08-04.
- Driver short name
- ESRI Shapefile
- Format
- ESRI Shapefile / DBF
- Built-in by default
- This driver is built-in by default
- Write support
- Supports Create() unconfirmed
- Field name length limit
- up to 10 characters unconfirmed
- Supported field types
- Only Integer, Integer64, Real, String and Date (not DateTime, just year/month/day) field types are supported. The various list, and binary field types cannot be created. unconfirmed
- File size limit
- the OGR shapefile implementation has a limitation to 4GB unconfirmed
- Key limitations
- Attribute names can only be up to 10 characters long; ESRI shapefiles can only store one kind of geometry per layer (shapefile); the driver knows to auto-extend string and integer fields (up to the 255 bytes limit imposed by the DBF format) unconfirmed
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What the source says
://gdal.org/en/stable/drivers/vector/selafin.html> Previous ESRI Shapefile / DBF Driver short name ESRI Shapefile Driver built-in by default This driver is built-in by default All varieties of ESRI Shapefiles should be available for reading, creation and editing. The driver can also handle standalone DBF files without associated .shp files. Normally the OG
— gdal.org, retrieved 2026-08-04
Source
- gdal.orghttps://gdal.org/en/stable/drivers/vector/shapefile.html