Rendering local shapefiles with HTML5
Thanks to Tom Carden’s javascript functions from his shapefile-js project and the new HTML5 local file access API, it is very easy to load and render any shapefile stored in the client’s device. If you don’t have a shapefile close at hand, get one of these: [China], [Europe], [South America], [United States]. Comments: I have only tested it on Windows 7 +…