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Maptitude File Extensions

File extensions used in Maptitude:

Associated with fixed format binary (.bin) files

bin: Table file
bx: index file
bxu: index file
dcb: dictionary file

Associated with comma delimited text (.csv) files

csv: table file
csxu: index file
dcc: dictionary file

Associated with tab separated text (.txt) files

txt: table file
dcb: dictionary file

Associated with fixed format text (.txt) files

txt: table file
axu: index file
dct: dictionary file

Associated with standard geographic (.dbd) files

dbd: standard geographic file
bdr: auxiliary file
bin: Table file
bx: index file
bxl: index file
bxu: index file
cdd: auxiliary file
cdk: auxiliary file
dcb: dictionary file
des: auxiliary file (lines)
dsc: auxiliary file (points, areas)
dsk: auxiliary file
grp: auxiliary file
lok: auxiliary file
mrk: bookmark file
pnk: auxiliary file
pts: auxiliary file
r0: auxiliary file
r1: auxiliary file (lines, areas)
sty: style file
_sty: style file (lines)
st0: feature display style file (points)
st1: feature display style file (lines)
st2: feature display style file (areas)
terr: auxiliary file (territory layer)
upx: update log (lines)

Associated with compact geographic (.cdf) files

cdf: geographic file
bin: Table file
bx: index file
bxl: index file
bxu: index file
cfs: field set definition
cfx: index file
cfxu: index file
dcb: dictionary file
sty: style file
_sty: style file (lines)

Associated with Maptitude views/windows

dvw: dataview
fig: figure
ay: layout
wrk: workspace
wrkz: compressed workspace

Other file types

adj: adjacency file
att: created for area layers with fields when exporting to CSV
cil: image library file
condition: saved Maptitude conditions
dx: street index file
log: log file with additional detail
met: metadata file
mtx: matrix file
net: network file
repx: report file
routefile: saved Maptitude routes
rsc: resource file
stg: settings file

Extensions used by internal/DK functions

arr: array
js: javascript catalog file generally used with region package installation
locale: input file to be used for creating translation table
NAD27: no extension; located in program folder with listing of NAD27 zones
NAD83: no extension; located in program folder with listing of NAD83 zones
rul: geocoding rule file
tbin: in-memory full text search index
USERPRJ: no extension; located in program folder with listing of user-created zones
USA: no extension; located in program folder with listing of USA zones
WORLD: no extension; located in program folder with listing of WORLD zones