| Format Name | Code | Creation | Georeferencing | Compiled by default | 
| Aeronav FAA files | AeronavFAA | No | Yes | Yes | 
| ESRI ArcObjects | ArcObjects | No | Yes | No, needs ESRI ArcObjects | 
| Arc/Info Binary Coverage | AVCBin | No | Yes | Yes | 
| Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage | AVCE00 | No | Yes | Yes | 
| Arc/Info Generate | ARCGEN | No | No | Yes | 
| Atlas BNA | BNA | Yes | No | Yes | 
| AutoCAD DWG | DWG | No | No | No | 
| AutoCAD DXF | DXF | Yes | No | Yes | 
| Comma Separated Value (.csv) | CSV | Yes | No | Yes | 
| CouchDB / GeoCouch | CouchDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl | 
| DODS/OPeNDAP | DODS | No | Yes | No, needs libdap | 
| EDIGEO | EDIGEO | No | Yes | Yes | 
| ElasticSearch | ElasticSearch | Yes (write-only) | - | No, needs libcurl | 
| ESRI FileGDB | FileGDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs FileGDB API library | 
| ESRI Personal GeoDatabase | PGeo | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library | 
| ESRI ArcSDE | SDE | No | Yes | No, needs ESRI SDE | 
| ESRI Shapefile | ESRI Shapefile | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| FMEObjects Gateway | FMEObjects Gateway | No | Yes | No, needs FME | 
| GeoJSON | GeoJSON | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| Géoconcept Export | Geoconcept | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| Geomedia .mdb | Geomedia | No | No | No, needs ODBC library | 
| GeoRSS | GeoRSS | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat) | 
| Google Fusion Tables | GFT | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl | 
| GML | GML | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs Xerces or libexpat) | 
| GMT | GMT | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| GPSBabel | GPSBabel | Yes | Yes | Yes (needs GPSBabel and GPX driver) | 
| GPX | GPX | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat) | 
| GRASS | GRASS | No | Yes | No, needs libgrass | 
| GPSTrackMaker (.gtm, .gtz) | GPSTrackMaker | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| Hydrographic Transfer Format | HTF | No | Yes | Yes | 
| Idrisi Vector (.VCT) | Idrisi | No | Yes | Yes | 
| Informix DataBlade | IDB | Yes | Yes | No, needs Informix DataBlade | 
| INTERLIS | "Interlis 1" and "Interlis 2" | Yes | Yes | No, needs Xerces (INTERLIS model reading needs ili2c.jar) | 
| INGRES | INGRES | Yes | No | No, needs INGRESS | 
| KML | KML | Yes | Yes | Yes (read support needs libexpat) | 
| LIBKML | LIBKML | Yes | Yes | No, needs libkml | 
| Mapinfo File | MapInfo File | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| Microstation DGN | DGN | Yes | No | Yes | 
| Access MDB (PGeo and Geomedia capable) | MDB | No | Yes | No, needs JDK/JRE | 
| Memory | Memory | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| MySQL | MySQL | No | Yes | No, needs MySQL library | 
| NAS - ALKIS | NAS | No | Yes | No, needs Xerces | 
| Oracle Spatial | OCI | Yes | Yes | No, needs OCI library | 
| ODBC | ODBC | No | Yes | No, needs ODBC library | 
| MS SQL Spatial | MSSQLSpatial | Yes | Yes | No, needs ODBC library | 
| Open Document Spreadsheet | ODS | Yes | No | No, needs libexpat | 
| OGDI Vectors (VPF, VMAP, DCW) | OGDI | No | Yes | No, needs OGDI library | 
| OpenAir | OpenAir | No | Yes | Yes | 
| OpenStreetMap XML and PBF | OSM | No | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3 (and libexpat for OSM XML) | 
| PCI Geomatics Database File | PCIDSK | No | No | Yes, using internal PCIDSK SDK (from GDAL 1.7.0) | 
| Geospatial PDF | PDF | Yes | Yes | Yes (read supports need libpoppler or libpodofo support) | 
| PDS | PDS | No | Yes | Yes | 
| PostgreSQL SQL dump | PGDump | Yes | Yes | Yes | 
| PostgreSQL/PostGIS | PostgreSQL/PostGIS | Yes | Yes | No, needs PostgreSQL client library (libpq) | 
| EPIInfo .REC | REC | No | No | Yes | 
| S-57 (ENC) | S57 | No | Yes | Yes | 
| SDTS | SDTS | No | Yes | Yes | 
| SEG-P1 / UKOOA P1/90 | SEGUKOOA | No | Yes | Yes | 
| SEG-Y | SEGY | No | No | Yes | 
| Norwegian SOSI Standard | SOSI | No | Yes | No, needs FYBA library | 
| SQLite/SpatiaLite | SQLite | Yes | Yes | No, needs libsqlite3 or libspatialite | 
| SUA | SUA | No | Yes | Yes | 
| SVG | SVG | No | Yes | No, needs libexpat | 
| UK .NTF | UK. NTF | No | Yes | Yes | 
| U.S. Census TIGER/Line | TIGER | No | Yes | Yes | 
| VFK data | VFK | No | Yes | Yes | 
| VRT - Virtual Datasource | VRT | No | Yes | Yes | 
| OGC WFS (Web Feature Service) | WFS | Yes | Yes | No, needs libcurl | 
| MS Excel format | XLS | No | No | No, needs libfreexl | 
| MS Office Open XML spreadsheet | XLSX | Yes | No | No, needs libexpat | 
| X-Plane/Flightgear aeronautical data | XPLANE | No | Yes | Yes |