Funny, I contacted ESRI with a similar question just today. I want to download a huge file of ArcView/GIS data for use in a MySQL database, but I wasn't sure if there's a way to extract data from those files.
Someone replied that it can indeed be done, but I haven't yet learned any particulars. I just want to be able to extract the data into a familiar format and then get it into MySQL. I have a Microsoft spreadsheet (but not Excel) and the OpenOffice.org equivalent. Notepad presumably wouldn't work because it doesn't preserve table structure. I'm not especially interested in the maps at this point, though I'd eventually like to learn more about GIS and include some GIS maps on my sites. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861 -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]