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SBN files: what are they and how do I open them?

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ArcView spatial index for read-write shapefiles

Files with sbn file extension can be often found as some sort of spacial index files for ArcGIS / ArcView read-write shapefiles.

Further details:

The sbn file extension is mainly associated with ArcView / ArcGIS geography software from ESRI.

The sbn file contains binary spatial indexes, which are used only by ESRI software. The format is not documented, and is not implemented by other vendors.

The sbn file is not strictly necessary, since the shp file contains all of the information necessary to successfully parse the spatial data.

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ArcGIS for Desktop Basic (ArcView)

A GIS application used to work with geographic data

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