@mitch Ah, so you're prob. the guy to ask... i hope i'm not intruding. i know you' ve got a busy schedule.
We just got the list of all the neighborhoods in Mexicali. i'm interested in making a Shoghi Effendi-type map for teaching and expansion purposes. Google Maps (GM) shows the irregular outline of the neighborhoods when i type in their name but only do this one-by-one.
@Bahais_Mexicali are you looking for something like this? This is based on the "asentamiento" category from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography. I don't think Google lets you scrape their data like you're describing - their general model is to sell products based on data, not the data itself.
@khird @mitch Wow Mitch! That sure looks like Mexicali alright, with the great New River coursing through it from nw to se...
So, where's the link? - lol
Again, wow! Thanks a lot! We have have the junior youth fill in the neighborhood names - lol. Who knows why they are using "Asentamiento". It actually means something like settlement, town, village, not a sub-division of a town like neighborhood. But the INEGI have been known to be kinda weird, so, there's that.
I got the initial file from [this link](https://www.inegi.org.mx/app/biblioteca/ficha.html?upc=702825296827) - it's a zip file containing more zip files, and the one you'd want for Mexicali is 020020001. That'll have a bunch of shapefiles called `020020001<SUFFIX>.shp`, and the "asentamiento" ones have a suffix of `as`.
> What did you use to open it with
I opened it with QGIS. That's the screenshot you see. The version in our repository is 3.38.2 "Grenoble".
> you said you found a bunch of menus as well
I don't think I said that - can you point me to the quote you're referencing?
> The "menus" are on the left and right-hand side of QGIS.
Ah, okay.
- Top left, browser: View > Panels > Browser
- Bottom left, layers: View > Panels > Layers
- Top right, processing toolbox: Processing > Toolbox
- Bottom right, identify results: "Attributes" toolbar > Identify Features (you can see this icon selected near the top centre of my screenshot)
> i wonder if i can get the polygons to show in different, pretty colors, like yours
In the processing toolbox:
- Cartography > Topological coloring
- Advanced > Algorithm Settings > Invalid Feature Filtering > Do Not Filter
- Run
Then in the layers pane:
- Right-click the new layer > Properties > Symbology
- Top dropdown (probably reading "Single Symbol" by default) > Categorized
- Value > "color_id"
- Classify
@khird @mitch Oh my goodness! Thanks uh, it looks like Kyle, so, thanks Kyle! i have a hard time figuring out who is who on these platforms and sometimes i think i'm talking to one person and ... oopps - it's somebody else! - lol. i suspect i'm just gettin' too old for this - lol. wow, gotta try your post - it's awesome!