Vector drivers
Short Name |
Long Name |
Creation |
Georeferencing |
Build Requirements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial intelligence powered vector driver | No | No | Built-in by default | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| ESRI Shapefile / DBF | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| GPSBabel | Yes | Yes | (read support needs GPX driver and libexpat) | |
| GPS Exchange Format | Yes | Yes | (read support needs libexpat) | |
| 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 | No | 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 | |
| MapInfo TAB and MIF/MID | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| MapML | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Memory (deprecated) | No | No | Built-in by default | |
| MiraMon Vector | 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 | |
| OGC API - Features | No | Yes | libcurl | |
| Oracle Spatial | Yes | Yes | OCI library | |
| ODBC RDBMS | No | Yes | ODBC library | |
| Open Document Spreadsheet | Yes | No | libexpat | |
| OpenStreetMap XML and PBF | No | Yes | libsqlite3 (and libexpat for OSM XML) | |
| (Geo)Parquet | Yes | Yes | Parquet component of the Apache Arrow C++ library | |
| 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 | |
| PMTiles | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| PostgreSQL / PostGIS | Yes | Yes | PostgreSQL client library (libpq) | |
| IHO S-57 (ENC) | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Selafin files | Yes | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| Norwegian SOSI Standard | No | No | FYBA library | |
| SXF | No | Yes | Built-in by default | |
| 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 | |
| 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 removed in GDAL 3.5: AeronavFAA, BNA, HTF, OpenAir, SEGUKOOA, SEGY, SUA, XPlane
The following drivers have been removed in GDAL 3.11: Geoconcept Export, OGDI (VPF/VMAP support), SDTS, SVG, Tiger, UK. NTF