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Data from the Places system.
http://www.nps.gov/npmap/tools/places/
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CartoDB extracts should break up some tags into individual columns #338

Open tpcolson opened 8 years ago

tpcolson commented 8 years ago

Many "GIS" fields are concatenated into one field "Tags", which, when extracted as a Esri Shapefile, is truncated to 254 characters.

nateirwin commented 8 years ago

I'm going to change the title to "CartoDB extracts should break up some tags into individual columns".

The 255 character limit is a limitation of the shapefile format, and we can't work around that. CartoDB does support a number of other formats that don't have the 255 character limitation, so I would recommend using one of those. It's crazy that Esri doesn't support bringing in GeoJSON files, but there are a lot of tools available that support converting from GeoJSON to file geodatabases.