Hot answers tagged administrative-boundaries
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At 10.1,
The Maplex for ArcGIS extension functionality has been moved into the
core ArcGIS for Desktop product and is referred to as the Maplex Label
Engine.
so getting the effect you want is easy.
On the Data Frame Properties change Label Engine from Standard label Engine to Maplex Label Engine.
On the Layer Properties go to the Labels tab, ...
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You might want to try using GEOS, a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite:
http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/
You were on the right lines with a bounding-box check, but the even smarter way is build a spatial index which means you can do better than O(n) for that first pass. GEOS can build spatial indexes for you.
I'm wondering what mobile platform you're ...
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i dont think info like this in free GIS sources existe. you can try to use arcscan to scan a map and make it a shp file.
http://gis.cbs.gov.il/shnaton57/all_israel-2006.pdf
we did something like this to a map of tel aviv in a gis-database course in baraln
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Take a look at OpenStreetMap.
And Gis Center at Hebrew University too. You may need to contact them by email.
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Humanitarian Response has Woreda boundaries listed under admin_level3.zip (i.e. Administrative Boundaries > Most Recent Known Changes > admin_level3.zip). The attached image shows the Woreda boundaries.
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You can use the Spatial Tools 'Analysts Tools' in QGIS
This Guide 'Tutorial: Spatial Analysis - Points in Polygon ' is a good example how to do 'Points in a Polygon'
http://qgis.spatialthoughts.com/2012/02/tutorial-spatial-analysis-points-in.html
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What you are trying to do is to Reverse geocode information.
Since you'are going offline only you have imho two options:
1) Incorporate to your software a portable spatial db (eg. spatialite) loaded with the data you want.
2) You can use any reverse geocoding data dump (eg GeoNames data dump) as reference for your program (more info)
Either options I ...
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The Telecom circles, or rather Telecom Service Areas (as they are now known) in India are roughly based on the Administrative districts.
You can get the list of Services Areas from here: http://www.dot.gov.in/uas/Amendment%20dated%204%20Jul%2007%20to%20CMTS%20&%20%20UASL.pdf
Based on this you could dissolve the district boundaries to get rough service ...
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The problem is with "NAME_3" = NULL, since NULL is not "equal to" NULL. This should instead use the proper SQL construct "NAME_3" IS NULL. See the documentation for more details.
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Just an idea, what about a raster approach? Your whole region would be a raster grid instead of polygons. Instead of a point in polygon operation, you would just:
Convert lon lat to pixel/cell coordinate
Retrieve pixel/cell value
Check for corresponding state/province on lookup table.
There would a a corresponding loss in precision though but I think it ...
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Can you just load the world data and then use this information to create a list of keywords from the attribute table ?
http://www.aubreyrhea.net/gis/index.php/2010/03/creating-a-list-of-keywords-from-the-attribute-table/
See if this is what you were looking for ?
Robert
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This does not directly answer your question in terms of how and/or where to obtain the data, but may serve as some guidance as to why you cannot find it readily available and why the National Association of Realtors does not release the data: MLS Wikipedia Entry
Read the sections entitled Limitations of access and Criticisms of MLS and Policies on sharing ...
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