Spatial data from shapefiles (for T-SQL Tuesday #006)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rob_farley/archive/2010/05/11/spatial-data-from-shapefiles-for-t-sql-tuesday-006.aspxI’m giving a presentation on May 12th at the Adelaide .Net User Group, around the topic of spatial data, and in particular, the visualization of said data. Given that it’s about one the larger types, this post should also count towards Michael Coles’enCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services - The Word is But a Stage (T-SQL Tuesday #006)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rob_farley/archive/2010/05/11/spatial-data-from-shapefiles-for-t-sql-tuesday-006.aspx#25045Tue, 11 May 2010 19:30:35 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:25045Stacia Misner<p>Host Michael Coles ( blog | twitter ) has selected LOB data as the topic for this month's T-SQL Tuesday</p> T-SQL Tuesday #006 Round-up!http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rob_farley/archive/2010/05/11/spatial-data-from-shapefiles-for-t-sql-tuesday-006.aspx#25135Thu, 13 May 2010 23:51:54 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:25135Michael Coles: Sergeant SQL<p>T-SQL Tuesday this month was all about LOB (large object) data. Thanks to all the great bloggers out</p> My favourite feature of SQL 2008 R2http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rob_farley/archive/2010/05/11/spatial-data-from-shapefiles-for-t-sql-tuesday-006.aspx#26011Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:09:35 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:26011Rob Farley<p>Interestingly, my favourite new feature of SQL Server 2008 R2 isn’t any of the obvious things.&amp;#160;</p>