Good question! There is no distortion but rather the Alaska mainland does not show up at all. All the islands around Alaska show up, however. In addition there is a shape next to the eastern border of Alaska that is not a state at all.
-----Original Message----- From: M S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:03 PM To: Taylor, Roger @ SYColeman Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] need help - problem viewing U.S. map; how to add data When you say Alaska does not appear correctly in the Map View, are you saying that the shape is distorted? If yes, then the problem likely lies with the projection. Mark On Feb 12, 2008 11:45 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 is cgd110p020.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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
