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.

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 ...