<DIV>tile4ms returned a rectangle on the county parcel shapefile as the bounding box.</DIV>
<DIV>what I'd like to achive is to get the "real" bounding polygon. On county level, the county boundary is exactly what I am looking for. The problem is when I have shapes overlapping counties and I can not simply use the county boundary as the overall bounding polygon. I'll try the other options and let you guys know how it goes.</DIV>
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<DIV>thanks for the replies</DIV>
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<DIV>T.<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri@swoodbridge.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">tile4ms will do this if you pass in the name of your shapefile the <BR>output shapefile will have one record with the bounding box.<BR><BR>-Steve<BR><BR>Thomas Chesky wrote:<BR>> Hello,<BR>> <BR>> Is there a tool out there to create a shapefile containing one polygon, which is the combined boundary of another shapefiles's shapes?<BR>> <BR>> For example, I have a shapefile containing parcel polygons for a county. I want to create another shapefile based on these parcel shapes which describes the combined boundary of parcels (e.g. to be able to effetively check if a point is in the bounding polygon)<BR>> <BR>> Pls. let me know what is the best approach to get such bounding shape.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> __________________________________________________<BR>> Do You Yahoo!?<BR>> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection
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