C S wrote: > does anyone have any code/links with maybe an example > of how to read in a basic SHP or DBF file using C#? If you will search through the list archives, you can find helpful information like: http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/shapelib/2004-January/000002.html Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net