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ASF GitHub Bot commented on DRILL-4303:
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cgivre commented on pull request #1858: DRILL-4303: ESRI Shapefile (shp) Format
Plugin
URL: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1858#discussion_r338106359
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File path: contrib/format-esri/README.md
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+# Format Plugin for ESRI Shape Files
+This format plugin allows Drill to read ESRI Shape files. You can read about
the shapefile format here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile.
+
+## Configuration Options
+Other than the file extensions, there are no configuration options for this
plugin. To use, simply add the following to your configuration:
+
+```
+ "shp": {
+ "type": "shp",
+ "extensions": [
+ "shp"
+ ]
+ }
+```
+
+## Usage Notes:
+This plugin will return the following fields:
+
+* `gid`: Integer
+* `srid`: Integer
+* `shapeType`: String
+* `name`: Plain text
+* `geom`: A geometric point or path. This field is returned as a `VARBINARY`.
+
+This plugin is best used with the suite of GIS functions in Drill which
include the following:
+
+<h1>Geospatial Functions</h1>
Review comment:
Yup. Fixed
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> ESRI Shapefile (shp) format plugin
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>
> Key: DRILL-4303
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-4303
> Project: Apache Drill
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Storage - Other
> Affects Versions: 1.17.0
> Reporter: Karol Potocki
> Assignee: Charles Givre
> Priority: Major
> Labels: doc-impacting
> Fix For: 1.17.0
>
>
> Allow Drill (drill-gis) to read esri shapefiles, one of the most popular
> geospatial formats.
> Format described here:
> https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
> It consists of three files (prj - srid information, dbf - data fields, shp -
> geometry data)
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