thanks for the help Jason.  I'm trying that method but how did you
deal with duplicate id numbers?  The geo file imported just fine but
in trying to do a data join w/the attributes file on ID, it says there
are duplicates

Dan Keelan

--- In [email protected], "Jason Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I did this for the precincts in all the counties in Missouri a few
years ago
> without using the DK – probably not the best way, but I had no DK
experience
> and was in a hurry.
> 
>  
> 
> I exported each county's precinct file to type text/geography.  Then
I used
> DOS to concatenate those text files into one (Copy county1.geo + . . . +
> countyn.geo state.geo).  Then import the state.geo file and save it as a
> CDF.
> 
>  
> 
> Text/geography files don't carry attribute data (precinct names,
votes cast,
> polling place, etc.), so you'll have to save all the attribute tables as
> text files and use the same DOS concatenation process to make a single
> statewide file that you can afterwards join to your precinct CDF 

(the
> text/geography format does carry your ID field, so the join is easy).
> 
>  
> 
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf
> Of pdr_dan
> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 5:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Maptitude] mergegeography
> 
>  
> 
> Hi, I need to merge precinct geography for all 58 counties in CA into
> one statewide map. I was looking at the mergegeography command in
> GISDK but it looks like it can only do two layers at a time. I guess
> I could set up some kind of a loop to keep adding layers but I was
> wondering if anyone had a better way of doing something like this. 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Dan
>




 
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