This format plugin allows Drill to read ESRI Shape files. You can read about the shapefile format here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile.
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" ] }
This plugin will return the following fields:
gid
: Integersrid
: IntegershapeType
: Stringname
: Plain textgeom
: 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: