On Feb 12, 2008, at 7:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I have opened a shape file of the U.S. showing U.S. Congressional  
> Districts. Alaska does not appear correctly in the Map View window  
> of Quantum GIS. I have previously opened this file using ArcGIS  
> without this problem. Here is the link to the file I’m using:
> http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html#cgd110p
>
> The title is “Congressional Districts of the United States - 110th  
> Congress” and the zip file iscgd110p020.tar.gz.
>
> So, does anyone know why Alaska does not look right? I need to be  
> able to work with this file as part of an important job assignment.
>
> My second question: How do I add a new field and populate it  
> efficiently? I would like to add the voting results for a bill to  
> the above shape file dataset. There are 1000’s of features in this  
> file, since there are many more land forms than there are districts.  
> So efficiently putting in a “yea” or “nay” in the vote column is  
> going to require a good method.
>
> As you can tell, I am a novice w/ GIS.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>

On the Options dialog, click on the Rendering tab and then click the  
checkbox next to:
"Make lines appear less jagged...."

This solved it for me.

-gary


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