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I am writing a program that needs a list of coordinates for the boundaries of the US. I can only find states individually but not the whole country. This is an example of the boundaries for Alabama.

{"Alabama": [coordinates: [35.0041, -88.1955],
                             coordinates: [34.9918, -85.6068],
                             coordinates: [32.8404, -85.1756],
                             coordinates: [32.2593, -84.8927],
                             coordinates: [32.1535, -85.0342],
                             coordinates: [31.7947, -85.1358],
                             coordinates: [31.5200, -85.0438],
                             coordinates: [31.3384, -85.0836],
                             coordinates: [31.2093, -85.1070],
                             coordinates: [31.0023, -84.9944],
                             coordinates: [30.9953, -87.6009],
                             coordinates: [30.9423, -87.5926],
                             coordinates: [30.8539, -87.6256],
                             coordinates: [30.6745, -87.4072],
                             coordinates: [30.4404, -87.3688],
                             coordinates: [30.1463, -87.5240],
                             coordinates: [30.1546, -88.3864],
                             coordinates: [31.8939, -88.4743],
                             coordinates: [34.8938, -88.1021],
                             coordinates: [34.9479, -88.1721],
                             coordinates: [34.9107, -88.1461] 
                            ] 
                }

Does anyone have a list for the whole country of the US?

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  • in JSON Format?
    – Mapperz ♦
    Dec 3, 2014 at 14:49
  • Any format would help, I could translate it myself.
    – Greatwon
    Dec 3, 2014 at 15:02
  • If a shapefile is usable, ref. Are there any free administrative boundaries available as shapefiles?
    – Erica
    Dec 3, 2014 at 15:11
  • Tried, the file is not available for download. Also the US Census does not have for the Country just states, counties, and islands.
    – Greatwon
    Dec 3, 2014 at 15:21
  • Guess I Should say I Have the states, only looking for whole country.
    – Greatwon
    Dec 3, 2014 at 15:25

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You can download the US country boundary from Natural Earth, load it into QGIS and export it as GeoJson. You might need to simplify the boundary. This approach has the added benefit that you can incrementally adjust the smoothing of the line until you get it down to a manageable number of points.

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You could use OpenStreetMap data. There are so-called OSM-poly-files (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmosis/Polygon_Filter_File_Format) which describe the extent of the region for the entire US and each federal state: http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.html respectively http://download.geofabrik.de/north-america.poly

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