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  • Mapping Data to Sub-National administrative boundaries around the world

    Purpose:  This post will discuss tips and point out potential problems you can avoid when performing data connections to sub-national, administrative boundary map layers for countries other than the U.S.   Why point this out for areas of the world outside of the U.S.?   Connecting a table of data to US State map ...
    Posted to AWhere 3.8 (Forum) by rqjeske on September 15, 2008

  • Why the need for a ‘Unique identifier’ field in your data?

    Purpose:  This post is intended to emphasize and explain the necessity of having a unique identifier (attribute) for each feature in a given map layer, especially if you intend to establish data connections between that map layer and an external data source (e.g. an Excel spreadsheet).  Likewise, that unique identifier value must be ...
    Posted to AWhere 3.8 (Forum) by rqjeske on September 11, 2008

  • Dissecting US FIPS codes, what are they?

    Census FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) codes are a unique ID used by many government agencies to track different types of data.  Not all geographic entities use FIPS codes.  Some might be mapped by latitude and logitude, ZIP code or some other alphanumeric sequence, including names (which is fraught with pitfalls ...
    Posted to AWhere 3.8 (Forum) by Michael Swaim on August 14, 2008
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