Body: <p>I have a client evaluating Civi and they need voting district data to be in their contact records. If they have shapefiles for districts and full addresses in contact records, how much of a challenge is it to use those data points to populate a field for district?</p>
  
  <p>I have looked in the docs for info about using shapefiles (no luck), and seen threads about identifying addresses within country borders, which suggest that it will be possible. But I don't have a sense of how hard/expensive it would be, which is an eval criteria we need.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have insights they can share on this? Thank you!!</p>
  
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Comments.Text: There are folk at the Australian Greens who have done a lot in this sort of area. If you want to join chat.civicrm.org you could ping @seamuslee
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Comments.Text: Thank you @petednz-fuzion! I will pass this info along and have my clients reach out.
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Tags: <geocoding>
Title: Using shapefiles with CIvi
ThreadText: # Using shapefiles with CIvi
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-10-05)
  
  I have a client evaluating Civi and they need voting district data to be in their contact records. If they have shapefiles for districts and full addresses in contact records, how much of a challenge is it to use those data points to populate a field for district?
  
  I have looked in the docs for info about using shapefiles (no luck), and seen threads about identifying addresses within country borders, which suggest that it will be possible. But I don't have a sense of how hard/expensive it would be, which is an eval criteria we need.
  
  Does anyone have insights they can share on this? Thank you!!
  
  **Tags:** geocoding
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: There are folk at the Australian Greens who have done a lot in this sort of area. If you want to join chat.civicrm.org you could ping @seamuslee  
  > **username_0**: Thank you @petednz-fuzion! I will pass this info along and have my clients reach out.  
  
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