What is a .GPKG file?
GeoPackage stores maps and geodata in a single SQLite database file. An OGC standard.
- Did you know
- GeoPackage put a whole GIS dataset into one portable SQLite file.
- GeoPackage was published as an Open Geospatial Consortium standard in 2014, developed with backing from the US military as a modern successor to the shapefile.
- Because it is a single SQLite database, a GeoPackage can hold vector features, raster tiles and plain tables together and scale far past the shapefile’s 2 GB ceiling.
- What Analyser reads
- Inspect geospatial and GIS files without a map: TopoJSON, OpenStreetMap XML, Esri Shapefile siblings (SHP/SHX/DBF/PRJ/CPG), world files, GML, NMEA GPS logs, IGC flight logs, MapInfo TAB/MIF, GDAL VRT, PMTiles, DTED terrain, Esri ASCII grids and SRTM .hgt - surfacing CRS/EPSG, feature/record counts, bounding boxes and elevation ranges. GRIB/NetCDF/GeoPackage/MBTiles/MrSID/ECW identified.
- Depth of analysis
- .GPKG is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .GPKG file
- Drag a .GPKG file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.