Advantages of ArcPad AXF files

ArcPad AXF files provide many advantages over shapefiles, including the following:

Although ArcPad AXF files provide many advantages over shapefiles in some situations shapefiles are preferable to ArcPad AXF files. Shapefiles perform better than ArcPad AXF files when shapefiles are not being edited and the spatial and attribute indexes exist. In these cases shapefiles draw faster than ArcPad AXF files. As a result, shapefiles are preferred for large, read-only background or reference data. However, the performance of shapefiles slows down considerably once the shapefile has been activated for editing and the indexes have deleted.

9/23/2019