Data, again

Many thanks to Daniel, who apparently knows the magical incantations necessary to transform ESRI shapefile data into XML files. If you look in
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/classes/08F/cis422/data/OSBxml/
you will find the full collection as osb_gis_xml.tar.zip or you can look in the osb_gis_xml directory to get individual xml files.

It's very late, and I understand if you are not able to incorporate this into your project before the deadline. On the other hand, it would be great if at least some of you could do so, or at least give it a try and document what problems need to be solved to make it work.

Update: I've looked through the XML data and I'm not so sure we're making progress. As near as I can tell, what we have is "PolygonB" objects that are represented as byte arrays (and I don't know how to interpret those byte arrays). It seems that "PolygonN" objects have a field called "Rings", which are arrays of (x,y) coordinate pairs, and that's what we were expecting. I don't know how to turn "PolygonB" objects into "PolygonN" objects. Maybe someone does?