I've done similar projects using the ogre tool mentioned above and they have turned out rather well. Doesn't have all the facny configuration options, but you can easily do some xml editing on the file they produce to change things to your liking.
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Chris Broadfoot <c...@google.com> wrote: > Why didn't it work very well? Can you link us to the generated Fusion Table > and the SHP file? > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Bob Torzynski <rtorzyn...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I tried shpescape.com but it didn't seem to work too well for me. A >> better bet IMHO is available at http://fwtools.maptools.org/ - which >> provides ogr2ogr.exe (look in the FWTools package). This lets you do >> the transformation on your own computer. I've transformed a number of >> Census 2010 polygons (e.g., the polygons for the block groups for >> Monroe County, New York and the points for the block group centroids >> for the entire state) from *shp to *kml with little difficulty. >> Ogr2ogr works better than ArcGIS 9.3 as well for the transformation, >> IMHO. Good Luck! >> >> On Apr 26, 10:16 pm, "geocode...@gmail.com" <geocode...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Apr 26, 6:49 pm, Austin <austin.cond...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > > I have a shp dbf and shx file that I downloaded from the US Census >> > > Bureau that I need to include in my map. It has polygons and overlay >> > > information that need to be displayed in my map. How can I include >> > > these with the API? Thanks! >> > >> > Have you seen FusionTables? >> > And this tool:http://www.shpescape.com/ >> > >> > Lets you import shapefiles into them. Then you can display it on a v3 >> > API map using FusionTablesLayer >> > >> > -- Larry >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > http://twitter.com/broady > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. > To post to this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
