title: Converting X,Y to Latitude Longitude to ESRI shapefile
body: <p>Warning: I know nothing about GIS. That will become very apparent in a moment, of course. My vocabulary isn't going to be spot on, either, Apologies. </p>
  
  <p>I need to recreate parts of a "Strategy Map" that looks like this as "real geo-spatial" map: </p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/x6v0L.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Why? Because if I can manage to plot the boxes ("Maximize Shareholder Value", "Exceed Customer Expectations", etc.) on a map in correct relation to each other, I can do some very fun stuff in a data visualization tool I'm working with. </p>
  
  <p>I can build the strategy map above in Visio, and then use a script to export the shapes I care about as X, Y points OR Polygons. One of the boxes above might looks like this once exported:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ShapeNo ShapeName PointNo   X    Y
  1       Exceed Cust 2       37  155
  1       Exceed Cust 4       116 155
  1       Exceed Cust 6       116 234
  1       Exceed Cust 8       37  234
  1       Exceed Cust 10      37  155
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...or it might look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code> POLYGON ((37 155, 116 155, 116 134, 37 234, 37,155)) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Regardless, I have a bunch of points, and I need to turn these into lat/lon coordinates, using lat/lon (0,0) as my point of reference. In the map above, 0,0 might be beneath the "Exceed Customer Expectations" box - more or less dead center. </p>
  
  <p>Then, I suspect I can find a tool that will convert this jumble of stuff into an ESRI shapefile and I can import directly into my dataviz tool. </p>
  
  <p>Are there any known (free) tools, scripts, libraries, etc.that might do some of this for me?</p>