Every ten years the US Bureau of the Census counts the people in the US and collects a number of other household metrics. The last census was compiled in 2010 and the Census Bureau sent hundreds of thousands of people door to door to count the population. The Census Bureau makes this data available but…
In one of my previous blog posts I talked about several different ways of overlaying ESRI shapefile data onto Bing Maps. In this blog post I will walk through how to develop a simple application for loading a locally store shapefile onto the Bing Maps WPF control using the ESRI Shapefile ReaderCodePlex project. Creating the…
ESRI Shapefiles are a popular file format for storing geospatial data. The format was created by ESRI, one of the largest GIS companies in the world and a Microsoft Partner. The shapefile format has been around for a while and as such there are a lot of datasets available online in this format. In addition,…
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