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[Stephen Woodbridge]

Yes, you can set you EXTENTS in the mapfile to just cover the mainland.

-Steve

Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> 
> Thanks guys it works great. Thanks for your help. Yet another question.
> I downloaded shapefiles from nationalatlas.gov. In the state boundaries
> map, it has all the states in one shapefile. Is there a way to ignore
> Alaska,  U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, etc keeping just the mainland
> US ?
> 
> -Sathis
> 
> Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> 
> >Yes, there are two utility programs the come with shapelib (dbfdump and
> >shpdump) that are comand line utilities (on Windows you have to run them
> >from a DOS window) dbfdump prints all the attributes from the .dbf file
> >and shpdump prints the shapefile extents and then all the coordinate
> >info for every shape in the shape file.
> >
> >-Steve W.
> >
> >Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> >
> >>Steve,
> >>
> >>Is there a way to look at the contents of shapefile or its realted file
> >>to know what is in it ?
> >>
> >>Sathis
> >>
> >>Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> >>
> >>>Sathis,
> >>>
> >>>The EXTENT in the map file is wrong. The census data is in Decimal
> >>>Degrees so it should look like
> >>>
> >>>EXTENT -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
> >>>
> >>>which will cover the whole globe, you can set these numbers smaller
> >>>based on the real extents of you shapefile.
> >>>
> >>>-Steve W.
> >>>