Vector drivers
Short name |
Long name |
Creation |
Geo-referencing |
Build requirements |
---|---|---|---|---|
AmigoCloud |
Yes |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
(Geo)Arrow IPC File Format / Stream |
Yes |
Yes |
Apache Arrow C++ library |
|
Arc/Info Binary Coverage |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Arc/Info E00 (ASCII) Coverage |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
AutoCAD DWG |
No |
Yes |
(internal libopencad provided) |
|
Carto |
Yes |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
Comma Separated Value (.csv) |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
Microstation DGN |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Microstation DGN v8 |
Yes |
Yes |
Open Design Alliance Teigha library |
|
AutoCAD DWG |
No |
No |
Open Design Alliance Teigha library |
|
AutoCAD DXF |
Yes |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
EDIGEO |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Google Earth Engine Data API |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
Elasticsearch: Geographically Encoded Objects for Elasticsearch |
Yes |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
ESRIJSON / FeatureService driver |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ESRI File Geodatabase (FileGDB) |
Yes |
Yes |
FileGDB API library |
|
FlatGeobuf |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GeoConcept text export |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GeoJSON |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GeoJSONSeq: sequence of GeoJSON features |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GeoRSS : Geographically Encoded Objects for RSS feeds |
Yes |
Yes |
(read support needs libexpat) |
|
Geography Markup Language |
Yes |
Yes |
(read support needs Xerces or libexpat) |
|
Geography Markup Language (GML) driven by application schemas |
No |
Yes |
Xerces |
|
GMT ASCII Vectors (.gmt) |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
GeoPackage vector |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 |
|
GPSBabel |
Yes |
Yes |
(read support needs GPX driver and libexpat) |
|
GPS Exchange Format |
Yes |
Yes |
(read support needs libexpat) |
|
GRASS Vector Format |
No |
No |
gdal-grass-driver |
|
General Transit Feed Specification |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
SAP HANA |
Yes |
Yes |
odbc-cpp-wrapper |
|
IDB |
Yes |
Yes |
Informix DataBlade |
|
Idrisi Vector (.VCT) |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
"INTERLIS 1" and "INTERLIS 2" drivers |
Yes |
Yes |
Xerces |
|
"INTERLIS 1" and "INTERLIS 2" drivers |
Yes |
Yes |
Xerces |
|
JML: OpenJUMP JML format |
Yes |
Yes |
(read support needs libexpat) |
|
OGC Features and Geometries JSON |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Keyhole Markup Language |
Yes |
Yes |
(read support needs libexpat) |
|
LIBKML Driver (.kml .kmz) |
Yes |
Yes |
libkml |
|
Dutch Kadaster LV BAG 2.0 Extract |
No |
No |
libexpat |
|
MapML |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Memory |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
MiraMon Vector |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
MongoDBv3 |
No |
Yes |
Mongo CXX >= 3.4.0 client library |
|
Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Database |
Yes |
Yes |
ODBC library |
|
MVT: Mapbox Vector Tiles |
Yes |
Yes |
(requires SQLite and GEOS for write support) |
|
MySQL |
Yes |
Yes |
MySQL library |
|
ALKIS |
No |
Yes |
Xerces |
|
Vector |
Yes |
Yes |
libnetcdf |
|
NextGIS Web |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
UK .NTF |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC API - Features |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
Oracle Spatial |
Yes |
Yes |
OCI library |
|
ODBC RDBMS |
No |
Yes |
ODBC library |
|
Open Document Spreadsheet |
Yes |
No |
libexpat |
|
OGDI Vectors |
No |
Yes |
OGDI library |
|
ESRI File Geodatabase vector (OpenFileGDB) |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OpenStreetMap XML and PBF |
No |
Yes |
libsqlite3 (and libexpat for OSM XML) |
|
(Geo)Parquet |
Yes |
Yes |
Parquet component of the Apache Arrow C++ library |
|
Geospatial PDF |
Yes |
Yes |
none for write support, Poppler/PoDoFo/PDFium for read support |
|
Planetary Data Systems TABLE |
No |
No |
Built-in by default |
|
PostgreSQL / PostGIS |
Yes |
Yes |
PostgreSQL client library (libpq) |
|
PostgreSQL SQL Dump |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ESRI Personal GeoDatabase |
No |
Yes |
ODBC library |
|
PLScenes (Planet Labs Scenes/Catalog API) |
No |
No |
libcurl |
|
ProtoMaps Tiles |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
IHO S-57 (ENC) |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
SDTS |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Selafin files |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
ESRI Shapefile / DBF |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Norwegian SOSI Standard |
No |
No |
FYBA library |
|
SQLite / Spatialite RDBMS |
Yes |
Yes |
libsqlite3 or libspatialite |
|
Scalable Vector Graphics |
No |
Yes |
libexpat |
|
SXF |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
U.S. Census TIGER/Line |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
TileDB vector |
Yes |
No |
TileDB >= 2.7 |
|
TopoJSON driver |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
VDV-451/VDV-452/INTREST Data Format |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format |
No |
Yes |
libsqlite3 |
|
Virtual Format |
No |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
WAsP .map format |
Yes |
Yes |
Built-in by default |
|
OGC WFS service |
No |
Yes |
libcurl |
|
MS Excel format |
No |
No |
libfreexl |
|
MS Office Open XML spreadsheet |
Yes |
No |
libexpat |
|
OpenDRIVE Road Description Format |
No |
Yes |
libOpenDRIVE >= 0.6.0, GEOS |
Note
The following drivers have been retired and moved to the https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-extra-drivers repository: AeronavFAA, BNA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane