To save me and thousands of others work. (Note: in my experience government employees tend to be very helpful). Most developers creating online maps do not have ESRI products and don't use shp files.
The free software kml2shp - license has expired. There are tons of pay options. I've spent hours looking into free options and haven't got anything to work yet. I also don't need a 100mb kml file (the original census data shp file is 100mb) as my understanding is that would overwhelm google maps. I need something that is lower resolution. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
