Hi folks, i've been asked to generate some demographic reports (crime rates, birth/deaths, etc) based on state and cities for the USA. I have all the demographic data (provided by our client) but can't seem to find any places which have the boundaries (read: LAT/LONG's) of the USA States and their cities. Our data are Lat/Long points o...
How do I take shapefiles and extract lat/lng coords so I can plot polygons on Google Maps? http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles/national-files I asked this question here: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse%5Fthread/thread/18763b4b0cb996c7 and they told me WHAT to do, but not HOW to do it =P Thx! ...
Has anyone here ever encountered the following error after installing and attempting to run the Geocommons geocoder on Mac OS X 10.5.8? This is my exact output from the Terminal window from the point at which I started irb: $ irb >> require 'geocoder/us' => true >> db = Geocoder::US::Database.new("/opt/tiger/orangeca.db") => #<Geocoder...