ESRI Shapefile for Go.
It's bad. See: http://switchfromshapefile.org/
You'll need at least these files:
my_database.shp
- The main ESRI ShapeFilemy_database.shx
- The ESRI ShapeFile Index offsets for fast lookupsmy_database.dbx
- dBase database file for various metadata, see DBF README notes
go get -u github.com/raspi/GeoESRIShapeFile
Soon(TM)