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 <http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/cgd110p.html> " and the zip file is cgd110p020.tar.gz <http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/nationalatlas/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
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