= ShapeFiles =

Simpler than [[Coverages]] ShapeFiles are a very common format that stores features belonging to a single FeatureClass (see [[Coverages]] for now) with no accompanying topology. 

ShapeFiles can contain one of the following:

  * Points
  * Multipoints (point sets)
  * Line
  * Polygon

Shape files are stored in folders. The constituent files are .shp/.shx files that hold vector data (and presumably the index into that data) and .dbf (DBase) files that hold attributes of the features.