bounding polygon

[Thomas Chesky]

tile4ms returned a rectangle on the county parcel shapefile as the bounding box.
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.

thanks for the replies

T.

Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
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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