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 -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Gary Sherman Chair, QGIS Project Steering Committee -Micro Resources: http://mrcc.com *Geospatial Hosting *Web Site Hosting -Desktop GIS Book: *http://desktopgisbook.com "We work virtually everywhere" -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
