thanks for the answer Andrew!

with Best Regards

Francisco Morosini

>Hi Francisco,
>
>ESRI have a whitepaper on their site that explains the format of shapefiles:
>
>http://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
>
>Cheers,
>
>Andrew
>
>
>>Hello people, someone works with Shapefiles (.shp) ?, i dont know how obtain the position from a part of the shape, i work with ASPMAP Activex and all works fine , my trouble is when i want add a point and the x,y coordinates work for one shape (usa.shp) but dont work for my shape (peru.shp), the strange for me is this point work fine with usa.shp but in my shape dont show me nothing but dont send me errors, how is the position in shape files?
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>>thanks
>>
>>Francisco Morosini