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A vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features. Often referred to as 'an ESRI shapefile', as ESRI developed it.

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Converting Esri ASCII raster to Shapefile for CartoDB?

D_WGS_1984",SPHEROID["WGS_1984",6378137,298.257223563]],PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]] I would like to be able to convert this to a format that CartoDB could use--an ESRI shapefile … Some more info: here's part of a row from the ESRI shapefile of this data that was imported into CartoDB **id** 1 **the_geom** {"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-8.7649,37.34027], [-8.87019,37.36377 …
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Converting Esri ASCII raster to Shapefile for CartoDB?

The latest version takes an ArcInfo Grid ASCII file, identifies the polygonal boundaries of annular regions directly in raster space, and writes out an ESRI shapefile. … The illustration below was a screen shot of a shapefile layer produced by the program (Annual Runoff in the Niger River Basin, year 2000, with cropland utilization 25% above year 2000 levels). . …
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Converting Esri ASCII raster to Shapefile for CartoDB?

In answer to my own question, I've written a program to "vectorize" an ArcInfo Grid ASCII files as an ESRI shapefile with a single layer containing oriented polygonal grid squares centered at the points …
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