Let's first prepare our company database. In order to do so, we first need to obtain the boundaries of the administrative divisions of Poland. The official data can be downloaded from http://www.codgik.gov.pl/index.php/darmowe-dane/prg.html, but this dataset is quite large and requires some further processing. Instead, we will use a level three administrative boundaries data extract based on the official data and provided by the folks at GIS Support (http://www.gis-support.pl/downloads/gminy.zip).
We already know how to load shapefiles using different techniques, so let's take a little detour before we start reading the JSON data and load our shapefile using Node.js. The process will look like this:
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