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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have used a couple of tools that are descended
from the ShapeLib -- namely ShapeIO, and binaries that were compiled from the
Shapelib example c code.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I use unprojected latitude and longitude almost
exclusively, and when I have made shape files in the past, they come out looking
"proportional".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That is to say that if I outline a rectangle
that is twice as long from north to south as from east to west, it will look
just like that in ArcExplorer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have recently acquired a 3rd party tool for
creating shapefiles. The shapefiles are correct, faithfully recording the
coordinate list for a polygon. But when I go to look at the polygon w/
ArcExplorer, the polygon is "stretched" in the east/west direction.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can see that this happens because ArcExplorer
doesn't take the latitude into account for proportioning the picture, but why
did it quit? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have never had to specify that I was using Polar
coordinates before -- and while the points have the right coordinates, the wide
picture is disconcerting to my clients.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any Good Clues???</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT></DIV>
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