topic New Problem Importing Shapefile in ArcGIS Community Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-community-analyst-questions/new-problem-importing-shapefile/m-p/639174#M185 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Back again - I'm having problems again importing Shapefiles into Community Analyst. This time, they are Congressional District boundaries for the State of Colorado. I started with the original boundaries, received the error message: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>"Unable to read polygons from shapefile. Invalid data."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I went back and ran the Simplify Polygon tool, since that had worked before. After running this and uploading a new file I still get this error message: "Unable to read polygons from shapefile. Invalid data."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm attaching both .zip files - maybe you can help me figure out what's wrong with these?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CO_CGD_112.zip - original boundary file</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CO_CGD_112_v4.zip - simplified boundary file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Allen</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:34:07 GMT AllenRisley 2012-09-05T16:34:07Z New Problem Importing Shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-community-analyst-questions/new-problem-importing-shapefile/m-p/639174#M185 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Back again - I'm having problems again importing Shapefiles into Community Analyst. This time, they are Congressional District boundaries for the State of Colorado. I started with the original boundaries, received the error message: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>"Unable to read polygons from shapefile. Invalid data."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I went back and ran the Simplify Polygon tool, since that had worked before. After running this and uploading a new file I still get this error message: "Unable to read polygons from shapefile. Invalid data."</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm attaching both .zip files - maybe you can help me figure out what's wrong with these?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CO_CGD_112.zip - original boundary file</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CO_CGD_112_v4.zip - simplified boundary file.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Allen</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:34:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-community-analyst-questions/new-problem-importing-shapefile/m-p/639174#M185 AllenRisley 2012-09-05T16:34:07Z