Shading Polygons and removing internal boundaries from shapefiles

[Fawcett, David]

Matt, 
 
For question #1, are you talking about the .dbf that is part of the
shapefile, or a second .dbf that you would like to join to?  
 
For question #2, I would just suggest downloading the legislative
district shapefiles from the MN Legislative GIS Office:
http://www.gis.leg.mn/metadata/leg02.htm  (there is a download link in
the metadata)
 
David.

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	Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Shading Polygons and removing
internal boundaries from shapefiles
	
	
	Hi,
	 
	I just installed MapServer because I want to do some graphical
shading of polygons that represent MN voting precints.  I have two
particular questions:
	 
	1.  Is there an example mapfile or mapscript that helps me
understand how to shade polygons on a scale based upon a numeric value
in a .dbf file?
	 
	2.  I want to graphically show Legislative districts, and I have
voting precint shapefiles.  How do I aggregate precints that belong to a
legislative district and make that one polygon, erasing the lines that
would be internal to this aggregated region?
	

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