I recently started off on working with shape map files, I downloaded a few shape files from the internet, the files had the following extension .shp, .dbf, .shx which I am unable to decipher what these extensions are. Then I found some actionscript libraries to parse these files here
However I am not able to understand the documentation there.
But using some example files I was finally able to draw a map in actionscript. However these are without latitudes and longitudes,
Is latitude and longitude information stored in shape files, if so, how do I extract the data?. Or are there special shape files with latitude/longitude information encoded into?