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 More options 3 July, 12:00
Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav, uk.rec.walking
From: "Mike Coon" <Mike@@mjcoon.+.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 12:00:09 +0100
Local: Fri 3 July 2009 12:00
Subject: Re: How to open SHP (Shapefiles)?
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
> I've downloaded various free maps from this site just recommended to
> me, for my imminent holiday in Canada:
> http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html

> But they are in GML format (Geography Markup Language) and SHP (ESRI
> Shapefiles). The latter are probably going to be what I need. But how
> do I view SHP files? Searches so far have yielded many technical
> articles but so far no freely available program. Anyone here with
> suggestions please?

Copied from Help: "GPS Utility exports/imports GPS data in DBF/SHP/SHX
filesets. Thus 3 files are exported with the same name, but with extensions
*.DBF, *.SHP and *.SHX."

HTH, Mike.
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