A Shapefile is a GIS file in which vectors like points, lines, and polygons are used to represent geo locations like rivers, lakes, country boundaries, well, and more. Each of its elements or items ...

We have been working on some code to determine whether or not a placemark lies inside or outside a polygon. We thought a nice use for that code would be to determine what country a placemark is in.

This page lists geospatial data (GIS data) that is produced by the Governments of Canada, Quebec, Ontario, and the City of Montreal. The geospatial data on this website consists of: census geography ...

Part of an ongoing series of on open-source geographic information system (GIS) programs, this article offers an introduction to uDig GIS. uDig is for GIS users of all levels, from beginners to ...

Actual work on the project started with an exploratory look for the necessary data. Fortunately being a year after the election there were several decent election data sets available. This provided me ...

The majority of my data was obtained from the local hard drive (the S: Drive). All of the data from the S: Drive was either in ArcView Shapefile format or in IDRISI Vector or Raster format. The data ...