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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 ...

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 ...

Any data that you collect using a GPS unit can be brought into AWhere, and viewed in map form via AWhere's 'Import Coordinates' Add-in (if the output of the GPS unit is a table or coordinates and their associated attributes).  Some GPS units can actually output a 'shapefile', and a shapefile can be brought into AWhere via the 'Add ...

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 ...