# 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
CartoDB | CartoDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
Cloudant / CouchDB | Cloudant | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
CouchDB / GeoCouch | CouchDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
Comma Separated Value (.csv) | CSV | Yes | No | Yes
OGC CSW (Catalog Service for the Web) | CSW | No | Yes | No, needs libcurl
Czech Cadastral Exchange Data Format | VFK | No | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3
DODS/OPeNDAP | DODS | No | Yes | No, needs libdap
EDIGEO | EDIGEO | No | Yes | Yes
ElasticSearch | ElasticSearch | Yes (write-only) | - | No, needs libcurl
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
GeoPackage | GPKG | Yes | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3
GeoRSS | GeoRSS | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat)
Google Fusion Tables | GFT | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl
Google Maps Engine | GME | 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 Vector Format | 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
INGRES | INGRES | Yes | No | No, needs INGRESS
JML | OpenJUMP .jml | Yes | No | Yes (read support needs libexpat)
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
Open Document Spreadsheet | ODS | Yes | No | No, needs libexpat
OGDI Vectors (VPF, VMAP, DCW) | OGDI | No | Yes | No, needs OGDI library
OpenAir | OpenAir | No | Yes | Yes
ESRI FileGDB | OpenFileGDB | No | Yes | Yes
OpenStreetMap XML and PBF | OSM | No | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3 (and libexpat for OSM XML)
PCI Geomatics Database File | PCIDSK | Yes | Yes | Yes, using internal PCIDSK SDK (from GDAL 1.7.0)
Geospatial PDF | PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes (read supports need libpoppler or libpodofo support)
PDS | PDS | No | Yes | Yes
Planet Labs Scenes API | PLScenes | No | Yes | No, needs libcurl
PostgreSQL SQL dump | PGDump | 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
Selafin/Seraphin format | Selafin | Yes | Partial (only EPSG code) | 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
Storage and eXchange Format | SXF | No | Yes | Yes
UK .NTF | UK. NTF | No | Yes | Yes
U.S. Census TIGER/Line | TIGER | 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
MS Office Open XML spreadsheet | XLSX | Yes | No | No, needs libexpat
X-Plane/Flightgear aeronautical data | XPLANE | No | Yes | Yes
Walk | Walk | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library
WAsP .map format | WAsP | Yes | Yes | Yes