Exporting Lists and Spatial Data

Registry Administrators, Registry Maintainers and Registry Contributors can export the lists and spatial data for the Geo-Object Types in their organization, and for lists and spatial data from other organizations that are Public.

You can export a list as a spreadsheet, or its spatial data as a shapefile.

1. Navigate to the Lists and Spatial Data page from the sidebar. On the left, click the Geo-Object Type under its organization, then click the title of the set.

   
2. In the date or period you want, open the List of the working version or a published version.

   
3. Optionally, filter the list. Only the rows that match your filters are exported, and the button changes to Export filtered list. Invalid Geo-Objects are only included if Also Show Invalid Geo-Objects is selected.

4. Click Export.

   
5. In the Export window, choose List (spreadsheet) or Spatial data (shapefile). For a Geo-Object Type with mixed geometries, also choose the Geometry Type to export. Then click Submit.

   
6. The file downloads to your computer.

What the files contain

List (spreadsheet): an XLSX file with three worksheets:

1. The list of Geo-Objects, as it appears in Geoprism Registry.

   
2. Metadata, the list's metadata.

   
3. Data Dictionary, which describes each column.

   

For a Private list, people outside the organization only get the code and label columns.

Spatial data (shapefile): a ZIP file containing the files that make up the shapefile, and a metadata spreadsheet with Metadata and Data Dictionary worksheets built from the spatial data's metadata. Open the shapefile in your GIS software. Shapefile field names are shortened because of the format's length limit, so use the Data Dictionary to see what each field is.