I am specifically looking for UK local authorities, wards, postcodes in shp file format.
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After learning about the  datasets I've working with the following layers, from the USA data   Country boundaries State boundaries County boundaries City boundaries ZipCode/Postcode boundaries   What I am trying to find is the equivalent (where appropriate) of the same data for various countries.  Is there any free administrative boundaries available as shapefiles for other countries?
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My data is in a PostGIS database. I would like to generate a shapefile from a query. How can I do that?
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I'm looking for good free online sources of vector (shapefiles of cities, provinces, terrain etc) and raster data on China.   Are there any open repositories of this type of data?
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How can I 'cat' a man page like I would 'cat' a file to get just a dump of the contents?
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I want to list all files in a directory that start with 'abc' and end with '.zip'  I'm trying to use ls.  The directory has a lot of zip files starting with abc&lt;date&gt; and xvz&lt;date&gt;. I only want to get the list of the abc&lt;date&gt;.zip
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I want to  create a small web application to visualize election results on a per poll site basis for my city. The result is going to be very similar to what has been done for Berlin . Hopefully this helps in understanding what I'm going for.  The election raw data on the scale I need is published and I know how to visualize this on the grounds of a shapefile with separate polygons lining out the election districts. My problem is - as you could probably guess - that something like this doesn't already exist.  What actually is published though, is a PDF file lining out the borders of the districts I'm interested in:   I'm not keen on redrawing the linework myself, so I'm looking for a way to make a shapefile out of this. Luckily, the PDf includes the linework as separate vector objects, I extracted these into a SVG file:   I already tried converting the SVG to a DXF and importing it into qgis 2.0.1. This actually works, but (as expected) places the vectors in the atlantic ocean and I can't find a way to edit it and fix this.  What can I do now to georeference these vectors with open source tools and finally produce a shapefile?
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I have a data  with columns of county and state names as well as FIPS codes for 1990 U.S. counties.   I cannot easily merge shape data into the data (e.g. the Census ), but CartoDB does not recognize the "administrative regions" being these counties at all when I ask to georeference this data.   Is there a way around this?
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Does anyone know any sources for free European city boundary data?
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I'm looking for shapefiles (or some similar format) of Colombia's municipality boundaries.    that seems to be correct and which matches another dataset that I will eventually be merging in based on municipality names and DANE codes. I've tried contacting the file creator about the underlying source data, but without success.  I've tried GADM, but some of the municipalities are missing/incorrect, e.g. all the way in the South Amazons should have 11 municipalities, not 8.     Here's OpenStreeMap with data export via . Many municipalities are simply just missing, although the borders for those that are there appear to be correct and more detailed than GADM.     I guess I could try to combine departments that OpenStreeMap had all municipalities for with the GADM data, but it looks like that would still only partially get me there. And in general it just makes me a bit suspicious about using the GADM data at all.
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I want to merge two shape files in which one is of point geometry type and other is polygon type in order to get a single layer containing both points and polygon in a single map.
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Many, if not most, of the 20th century U.S. census records include fairly precise address information for those living in cities and towns.  Even many 1880 census records include at least street-level information.  Some of the earlier census sheets (say 1860 and 1870) don't include street-level data, but do list the ward of the town or city.  I'm curious to know whether city wards are useful for  genealogical purposes.  I'd rather not get into rare, speculative uses, but rather actual uses where ward information can solve some other problem.
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I need to create a shapefile with crossed streets. I can't split the lines to number each segment with the house number ranges.
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I'm always looking for the best way to represent a file structure on my posts.  I generally use this one:  Project  |  +-- file 1  |      +-- dir 2  |  |    |  +-- file 2.1  |      +-- dir 3  |  |    |  +-- file 3.1  |  +-- file 3.2  |      +-- dir 4  |  |    +  |-- dir 4.1   Is there a real convention for those representations? Is there any script (Windows, Linux or web app service) that provide formatting?  Any advice / tool / recommendation / ISO ( ? ;) ) would be appreciated.  Some examples:
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I am searching for a downloadable database of administrative boundary shapes, best would be worldwide data.  I have found  but it seems a bit outdated, also the  seems interesting but I haven't found any exports based on this definition.  The detail level of the shapes is not that important as it would be used to let a user select the city/region (if not in a city or no data for that city available). A hierachical representation like Country > Region > City would be great.
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In order to do reverse geocoding lookups to find a country (as ISO-3166-1) and the subdivision (as ISO-3166-2) for given coordinates I am looking for a way to get all polygons of all countries and their subdivisions.  Reverse geocoding lookups with Google Maps or other services either do not always return the country and subdivision (Google Maps), or sometimes they are incorrect (geonames.org). As I understand it all countries and subdivisons are available in the openstreetmap data, but I do not know how to only retrieve the polygons - no map data, no points of interest or cities are necessary, only the outlines of all subdivisions with the given country and subdivision codes. Then I can check myself if a given point is within any given polygon, or near it.  Does anyone know how to retrieve this data from the openstreetmap data, or is there any other source for this data?
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I have a number of shapefiles in a folder but some of them are empty i.e. there are no rows within the shapefile.   Is there a simple way to find those empty shapefiles using ArcPy?
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I'm looking for block (sub-district) level shapefiles for India. The GADM database only has files for the 2300 Tehsils, whereas I'm looking for the about 5500 Census blocks (sub-districts) for any year possible.