GIS for Engineers: GDAL, EPSG Codes, and Why Your Team Is Still Using Shapefiles
At some point, every mechanical or civil engineer gets handed a shapefile or GeoJSON and told to “do something with it.” Usually it is site boundary data for a facility layout, parcel boundaries for a land survey, drone-acquired point cloud footprints, or utility infrastructure from a municipal dataset. None of these came from SolidWorks or AutoCAD. They came from GIS, and they arrived in a format you may never have opened before. ...