building bounding box from esri shapefile

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Yeah exactly I don't code. I built a drupal site using point and click, and I'm trying to do this to set up a geo taxonomy system without typing out all of my taxonomy terms and bounding boxes. I also don't really understand the bounding box exactly. Looking through the shp.xml file in a text editor I see this:

<geoBox esriExtentType="decdegrees">
                  <westBL Sync="TRUE">-74.257465</westBL>
                  <eastBL Sync="TRUE">-73.69945</eastBL>
                  <northBL Sync="TRUE">40.915808</northBL>
                  <southBL Sync="TRUE">40.495805</southBL>
                  <exTypeCode Sync="TRUE">1</exTypeCode>
            </geoBox>

but that's the only place where I see coordinates. The shapefile I downloaded is for NYC boroughs, so my impression was that this file would have bounding box values for all 5 boroughs, whereas that looks like it might be the coordinates for a box that bounds all of NYC.

Molnár István

my idea is :
on this site is an online file converter:
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/gpsbabel/
, you can convert the file to google earth kml file , then open the kml file in google map and modify the coordinates

hope it helps

Can you post the .shp file and the shp.xml file if they aren't super large or link to where you downloaded them would be better.

quicksilver, that's for waypoint files and such. I don't think it will work on .shp files.

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link here:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/bytes/dwndistricts.shtml#bcd

I want to have a multiple level hierarchy, so I eventually need 2 csv files, one for borough bounds and one for whatever gov't label fits common neighborhood bounds best

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hmm I get this error when trying to export coordinates to excel:

Error: 5 - invalid procedure call or argument.
In: Form1.frm\Private Sub mnuExportToExcel_Click
At Line: 1

More than willing to paypal you $20 to do this for me. Is that allowed by EE's terms? I'm not a student

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