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Load ESRI Shapefile
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Preparing the Shapefile
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When we loaded the shapefile into PostGIS earlier, we did so using shp2pgsql and the files remained zipped.

For creating a Store from a shapefile, we need to unzip the contents.

Connect via SSH and navigate to the //opt//data directory:

.. code-block:: console

   	root@demo:~# cd /opt/data

Listing the contents, we see the three .zip file containing our data

.. code-block:: console

	root@demo:/opt/data# ls	
	neighborhoods.zip  parks.zip  waterways.zip
	
Unzip the waterways.zip file using 'unzip -q waterways.zip'

.. code-block:: console

	root@demo:/opt/data# unzip -q waterways.zip
	
The contents are now unzipped:

.. code-block:: console

	root@demo:/opt/data# ls	
	neighborhoods.zip  waterways.dbf  waterways.shp  waterways.zip
	parks.zip          waterways.prj  waterways.shx
 
Create Shapefile Store
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**1. Go to Stores > Add New Store and click the Shapefile link:**

.. image:: da-shpfile-6.png

**2. For Workspace, select 'postgis' and enter 'postgishp" for the name and description**

.. image:: da-shpfile.png

**3. In the Connection Parameters, click the browse link**

.. image:: da-shpfile-1.png

**4. For shapefile location, select // from the dropdown**

.. image:: da-shpfile-2.png

**5. Navigate to //opt//data and select the waterways.shp file**

.. image:: da-shpfile-3.png

**6. Click the Save button**

.. image:: da-shpfile-4.png

**7. On the New Layer screen, click the Publish link**

.. image:: da-shpfile-5.png

Enter the information as we did previously in Create Store