Digital Map Formats

January 9, 2024

Survey Solutions offline maps may be prepared in any of the following formats:

FORMAT
EXTENSION
TYPE
EXTERNAL LINKS
ESRI tile package.
*.tpk

raster
USDA Tutorial on creation of TPK tile packages.
ESRI documentation Create Map Tile Package
ESRI mobile map package.
*.mmpk

raster
ESRI tutorial on creating MMPK mobile map packages.
GeoTIFF
*.tiff

raster
OGC GeoTIFF standard
Example file and description.
Pacific Community (SPC) tutorial How to generate offline maps for Survey Solutions in QGIS.
Shapefile
*.shp
*.shx
*.dbf

vector
QGIS tutorial on creation of shapefiles.
ESRI Shapefile Technical Description

Useful links: