# OGR Vector Formats

Format Name | Code | Creation | Georeferencing | Compiled by default
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Aeronav FAA files | AeronavFAA | No | Yes | Yes
ESRI ArcObjects | ArcObjects | No | Yes | No, needs ESRI ArcObjects
Arc/Info Binary Coverage | AVCBin | No | Yes | Yes
Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage | AVCE00 | No | Yes | Yes
Arc/Info Generate | ARCGEN | No | No | Yes
Atlas BNA | BNA | Yes | No | Yes
AutoCAD DWG | DWG | No | No | No
AutoCAD DXF | DXF | Yes | No | Yes
Comma Separated Value (.csv) | CSV | Yes | No | Yes
CouchDB / GeoCouch | CouchDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
DODS/OPeNDAP | DODS | No | Yes | No, needs libdap
EDIGEO | EDIGEO | No | Yes | Yes
ESRI FileGDB | FileGDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs FileGDB API library
ESRI Personal GeoDatabase | PGeo | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library
ESRI ArcSDE | SDE | No | Yes | No, needs ESRI SDE
ESRI Shapefile | ESRI Shapefile | Yes | Yes | Yes
FMEObjects Gateway | FMEObjects Gateway | No | Yes | No, needs FME
GeoJSON | GeoJSON | Yes | Yes | Yes
Géoconcept Export | Geoconcept | Yes | Yes | Yes
Geomedia .mdb | Geomedia | No | No | No, needs ODBC library
GeoRSS | GeoRSS | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat)
Google Fusion Tables | GFT | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
GML | GML | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs Xerces or libexpat)
GMT | GMT | Yes | Yes | Yes
GPSBabel | GPSBabel | Yes | Yes | Yes (needs GPSBabel and GPX driver)
GPX | GPX | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat)
GRASS | GRASS | No | Yes | No, needs libgrass
GPSTrackMaker (.gtm, .gtz) | GPSTrackMaker | Yes | Yes | Yes
Hydrographic Transfer Format | HTF | No | Yes | Yes
Idrisi Vector (.VCT) | Idrisi | No | Yes | Yes
Informix DataBlade | IDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs Informix DataBlade
INTERLIS | "Interlis 1" and "Interlis 2" | Yes | Yes | No, needs Xerces (INTERLIS model reading needs ili2c.jar)
INGRES | INGRES | Yes | No | No, needs INGRESS
KML | KML | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat)
LIBKML | LIBKML | Yes | Yes | No, needs libkml
Mapinfo File | MapInfo File | Yes | Yes | Yes
Microstation DGN | DGN | Yes | No | Yes
Access MDB (PGeo and Geomedia capable) | MDB | No | Yes | No, needs JDK/JRE
Memory | Memory | Yes | Yes | Yes
MySQL | MySQL | No | Yes | No, needs MySQL library
NAS - ALKIS | NAS | No | Yes | No, needs Xerces
Oracle Spatial | OCI | Yes | Yes | No, needs OCI library
ODBC | ODBC | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library
MS SQL Spatial | MSSQLSpatial | Yes | Yes | No, needs ODBC library
OGDI Vectors (VPF, VMAP, DCW) | OGDI | No | Yes | No, needs OGDI library
OpenAir | OpenAir | No | Yes | Yes
PCI Geomatics Database File | PCIDSK | No | No | Yes, using internal PCIDSK SDK (from GDAL 1.7.0)
PDS | PDS | No | Yes | Yes
PGDump | PostgreSQL SQL dump | Yes | Yes | Yes
PostgreSQL/PostGIS | PostgreSQL/PostGIS | Yes | Yes | No, needs PostgreSQL client library (libpq)
EPIInfo .REC | REC | No | No | Yes
S-57 (ENC) | S57 | No | Yes | Yes
SDTS | SDTS | No | Yes | Yes
SEG-P1 / UKOOA P1/90 | SEGUKOOA | No | Yes | Yes
SEG-Y | SEGY | No | No | Yes
Norwegian SOSI Standard | SOSI | No | Yes | No, needs FYBA library
SQLite/SpatiaLite | SQLite | Yes | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3 or libspatialite
SUA | SUA | No | Yes | Yes
SVG | SVG | No | Yes | No, needs libexpat
UK .NTF | UK. NTF | No | Yes | Yes
U.S. Census TIGER/Line | TIGER | No | Yes | Yes
VFK data | VFK | No | Yes | Yes
VRT - Virtual Datasource | VRT | No | Yes | Yes
OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) | WFS | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
MS Excel format | XLS | No | No | No, needs libfreexl
X-Plane/Flighgear aeronautical data | XPLANE | No | Yes | Yes