bounding polygon

[Stephen Woodbridge]

tile4ms will do this if you pass in the name of your shapefile the
output shapefile will have one record with the bounding box.

-Steve

Thomas Chesky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a tool out there to create a shapefile containing one polygon, which is the combined boundary of another shapefiles's shapes?
>
> 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)
>
> Pls. let me know what is the best approach to get such bounding shape.
>
> Thanks
>
>
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