
Importing ESRI Shapefiles
ESRI Shapefiles are a popular file format in the GIS community. Magic Maps can read (but not write) Shapefiles. To open a Shapefile as a new Magic Maps document:
- Unzip the file using Archive Utility, if necessary
- Choose File > Open
- Select the file ending with .shp and click Open
- Choose a column to treat as each feature's primary key and which to treat as each feature's name.
- Click Import
To import a Shapefile into an existing Magic Maps document, choose File > Import Shapefile... in place of step 2.
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