I have a shapefile generated by the ESRI product suite. I do not have any ESRI products and my budget does not support their purchase. Aside from fiscal issues, there may be technical limitations with deploying ESRI products but that's a moot point since we have no money.

Using .NET and, if necessary, open source libraries, how can I read my shape file data and return the polygon that contains a latitude & longitude coordinate? I see this being built as service code and given a coordinate, it returns the polygon. Conceptually not too difficult but I'm not sure which libraries out there will help with this.

Thoughts?

edit #1 - I'd settle for returning the polygon's ID or description or some other string property. If I want more info, I will fetch that using the polygon's ID or name or ???

edit #2 - The solution should be something I can call from a service. For example, a library I can call from my .NET code would work just fine. An application that must be installed and data entered through its UI will not work since my application will be deployed.

I have a shapefile generated by the ESRI product suite. I do not have any ESRI products and my budget does not support their purchase. Aside from fiscal issues, there may be technical limitations with deploying ESRI products but that's a moot point since we have no money.

Using .NET and, if necessary, open source libraries, how can I read my shape file data and return the polygon that contains a latitude and longitude coordinate? I see this being built as service code and given a coordinate, it returns the polygon. Conceptually not too difficult but I'm not sure which libraries out there will help with this.

Thoughts?

edit #1 - I'd settle for returning the polygon's ID or description or some other string property. If I want more info, I will fetch that using the polygon's ID or name or ???

edit #2 - The solution should be something I can call from a service. For example, a library I can call from my .NET code would work just fine. An application that must be installed and data entered through its UI will not work since my application will be deployed.

I have a shapefile generated by the ESRI product suite. I do not have any ESRI products and my budget does not support their purchase. Aside from fiscal issues, there may be technical limitations with deploying ESRI products but that's a moot point since we have no money.

Using .NET and, if necessary, open source libraries, how can I read my shape file data and return the polygon that contains a latitude & longitude coordinate? I see this being built as service code and given a coordinate, it returns the polygon. Conceptually not too difficult but I'm not sure which libraries out there will help with this.

Thoughts?

edit #1 - I'd settle for returning the polygon's ID or description or some other string property. If I want more info, I will fetch that using the polygon's ID or name or ???

I have a shapefile generated by the ESRI product suite. I do not have any ESRI products and my budget does not support their purchase. Aside from fiscal issues, there may be technical limitations with deploying ESRI products but that's a moot point since we have no money.

Using .NET and, if necessary, open source libraries, how can I read my shape file data and return the polygon that contains a latitude & longitude coordinate? I see this being built as service code and given a coordinate, it returns the polygon. Conceptually not too difficult but I'm not sure which libraries out there will help with this.

Thoughts?

edit #1 - I'd settle for returning the polygon's ID or description or some other string property. If I want more info, I will fetch that using the polygon's ID or name or ???

edit #2 - The solution should be something I can call from a service. For example, a library I can call from my .NET code would work just fine. An application that must be installed and data entered through its UI will not work since my application will be deployed.

I have a shapefile generated by the ESRI product suite. I do not have any ESRI products and my budget does not support their purchase. Aside from fiscal issues, there may be technical limitations with deploying ESRI products but that's a moot point since we have no money.

Using .NET and, if necessary, open source libraries, how can I read my shape file data and return the polygon that contains a latitude & longitude coordinate? I see this being built as service code and given a coordinate, it returns the polygon. Conceptually not too difficult but I'm not sure which libraries out there will help with this.

Thoughts?

I have a shapefile generated by the ESRI product suite. I do not have any ESRI products and my budget does not support their purchase. Aside from fiscal issues, there may be technical limitations with deploying ESRI products but that's a moot point since we have no money.

Using .NET and, if necessary, open source libraries, how can I read my shape file data and return the polygon that contains a latitude & longitude coordinate? I see this being built as service code and given a coordinate, it returns the polygon. Conceptually not too difficult but I'm not sure which libraries out there will help with this.

Thoughts?

edit #1 - I'd settle for returning the polygon's ID or description or some other string property. If I want more info, I will fetch that using the polygon's ID or name or ???