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iTool User's Guide: Working with Maps |
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A shapefile stores nontopological geometry and attribute information for the spatial features in a data set. The shapefile format was created by ESRI, and is widely used in the geographic information systems community. The iTools display a shapefile's data by creating one of three special visualization types: ShapePolygon, ShapePolyline, and ShapePoint. The type of visualization created depends on the type of data in the shapefile.
Note For more information on the shape visualizations, see Visualization Type Properties. |
You can create a shape visualization in one of the following ways:
Note When creating a shape visualization using File ![]() ![]() |
IDL Online Help (March 01, 2006)