Adam:<br>
Some where on the tiger census bureau website
(<a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html">http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html</a>) you might find
what you are looking for.<br>
<br>
-Prashanth<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/28/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam</b> <<a href="mailto:adam@jamradar.com">adam@jamradar.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've been looking everywhere and can't find shape files for all the towns in<br>the United States. I have found incorporated cities and county subdivisions<br>but that's not quite town\city\village boundaries.<br><br>Does this dataset exist for free?
<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Bob Basques" <<a href="mailto:bob.basques@CI.STPAUL.MN.US">bob.basques@CI.STPAUL.MN.US</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@lists.umn.edu">MAPSERVER-USERS@lists.umn.edu
</a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:50 PM<br>Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Sort of MapServer related . . Stacked, or<br>coincident points . . .<br><br><br>> All,<br>><br>> I need a way to handle a stacked point data set. I'm working with a
<br>> Address dataset that has some points that are stacked in the same spot.<br>> A few of them have hundreds of points in the same location, IE Apt.<br>> Buildings, etc.<br>><br>> Has anyone worked with a similar dataset before from MapServer?
<br>><br>> We have some ideas about how to display the data. Nothing concrete<br>> yet. The current system relies on ImageMaps for the display of the<br>> point data via a MapServer Template. This works for the first (last
<br>> ImageMap record) in the imagemap, but how to view the other point<br>> records from the same point. We're in the mode right now to build some<br>> Javascript handlers for a XML stream from MapServer, but this seems like
<br>> overkill for some reason.<br>><br>> The dataset is such that I can't seperate the different points very<br>> easily, nor should they I think.<br>><br>> Any ideas out there?<br>><br>> bobb<br>
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