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From: Marc Harter <wavded@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:40:41 -0500
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+This project allows a user to load Shapefiles and DBFs into the browser with JavaScript.  Outputs as GeoJSON for use with other Mapping APIs such as OpenLayers.
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+Heavily inspired by the excellent work by Tom Carden ( [http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js/](http://github.com/RandomEtc/shapefile-js/)).
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