shapefiles
Upload your shapefiles here (hit edit above and scroll to the attachments section that appears at the bottom of the page). Then download the others and smoothly combine them all into a QGIS map of Marlboro.
You need to make sure you have five files ending in .dbf .prj .qpj .shp .shx
All five of those combine to make a shapefile set on Q
We'll talk more about this on Thursday 3rd October.
World Map Shapefile
Currently this URL:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html Appears to be broken due to the shutdown. But it seems in theory to be able to provide shapefiles with embedded census data down to the tract level (for comparison, there are 17 tracts in Windham county alone - very detailed.)