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Still reeling from a nearly five hour long interview in which someone who worked at Esri for nearly 30 years told me that shapefiles were, essentially, a mistake
@jonty maybe more precise to say "an accident"—no grand scheme to make a standard file format, just some guys who made up something no one asked for
@jonty it'll be in my dissertation for sure, probably should post about it
@ingrid Is this going to get written up? I need to know more!