Everything about Shapefile

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ShapefileA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Shapefile-based multi-agent geosimulation and visualization of building evacuation scenarioInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Census 2001The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Biogeographic regionalization of the Neotropical region: New map and shapefileCited 295 times
5. Go sideways: Georelational data modelA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Esri TINA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Biogeographic regionalization of the Neotropical region: New map and shapefile

  JUAN J. MORRONE, TANIA ESCALANTE, GERARDO RODRÍGUEZ-TAPIA · 2022 · Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências · 295 citations

• Integration of BIM and GIS: Geometry from IFC to shapefile using open-source technology

  Junxiang Zhu, Xiangyu Wang, Peng Wang · 2019 · Automation in Construction · 173 citations

• Integration of BIM and GIS: IFC geometry transformation to shapefile using enhanced open-source approach

  Junxiang Zhu, Xiangyu Wang, Mengcheng Chen · 2019 · Automation in Construction · 126 citations

• <strong>Neotropical region: a shapefile of Morrone’s (2014) biogeographical regionalisation</strong>

  Peter LÖWENBERG-Neto · 2014 · Zootaxa · 101 citations

• Map and shapefile of the biogeographic provinces of Argentina

  MARCELO D. ARANA, GONZALO A. MARTÍNEZ, ANTONIA J. OGGERO · 2017 · Zootaxa · 64 citations

• A high resolution shapefile of the Andean biogeographical region

  Gonzalo Matias Romano · 2017 · Data in Brief · 28 citations

• ShapefileGPT: a multi-agent large language model framework for automated shapefile processing

  Qingming Lin, Rui Hu, Huaxia Li · 2025 · International Journal of Digital Earth · 25 citations

• Regionalized LCA in practice: the need for a universal shapefile to match LCI and LCIA

  Stephan Pfister, Christopher Oberschelp, Thomas Sonderegger · 2020 · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment · 24 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Shapefile-based multi-agent geosimulation and visualization of building evacuation scenario

  Ephraim Sinyabe Pagou, Vivient Corneille Kamla, Igor Tchappi · 2023 · Procedia Computer Science · 3 citations

• Unlocking New Opportunities for Spatial Analysis of Farms’ Income and Business Activities in Italy: The Agricultural Regions in Shapefile Format

  Sara Quaresima, Pasquale Nino, Concetta Cardillo · 2024 · Data · 3 citations

• Pengembangan Video Pembelajaran OpenStreetMaap untuk Pembuatan Peta Digital Format Shapefile Menggunakan Geofabrik

  Hanif Muhasan, Sunar Rochmadi · 2022 · Jurnal Pendidikan Teknik Sipil · 0 citations

• Pengembangan Video Pembelajaran Openstreetmap untuk Pembuatan Peta Digital Format Shapefile Menggunakan ArcGIS

  Kukuh Setyo Budi, Nuryadin Eko Raharjo, Sunar Rochmadi · 2022 · Jurnal Pendidikan Teknik Bangunan · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Census 2001Great Britain. Office for National Statistics · 2003
• 📕China. Maps. [shapefile]
• 📕China. Maps. [shapefile]
• 📕China. Maps. [shapefile]
• 📕Thailand. Administrative. [Data-Shapefile format]
• 📕Google Mapping the Shapefile with Flex, PHP, and PostGISElijah Robison · 2011
• 📕KML and KMZ : Knowledge You Should CultivatePasquale Thackery · 2021
• 📕NTAD 2005United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics · 2005

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