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Loading Shapefiles -- taking a long time

The shapefiles for the map located here:

http://www.civicyouth.org/maps/CD-2014/

take some time to load. Any ideas on how to speed this up?

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Felicia

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Hi Felicia,

It could be greatly speeded up by reducing the size of the map through simplification, using MapShaper. The steps are described here: http://www.statsilk.com/maps/useful-free-gis-shapefile-map-tools. Often you can reduce the size by around 90% without very noticeable loss of detail.

Best,

Frank

The mapshaper tool worked great!! Thanks.

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