I&#39;m interested in writing a visualization program for the road data in the [2009 Tiger/Line Shapefiles][1].  I&#39;d like to draw the line data to display all the roads for my county.

&gt; The ESRI Shapefile or simply a
&gt; shapefile is a popular geospatial
&gt; vector data format for geographic
&gt; information systems software. It is
&gt; developed and regulated by ESRI as a
&gt; (mostly) open specification for data
&gt; interoperability among ESRI and other
&gt; software products.[1] A &quot;shapefile&quot;
&gt; commonly refers to a collection of
&gt; files with &quot;.shp&quot;, &quot;.shx&quot;, &quot;.dbf&quot;, and
&gt; other extensions on a common prefix
&gt; name (e.g., &quot;lakes.*&quot;). The actual
&gt; shapefile relates specifically to
&gt; files with the &quot;.shp&quot; extension,
&gt; however this file alone is incomplete
&gt; for distribution, as the other
&gt; supporting files are required.

Does anyone know of existing libraries for parsing and reading in the line data for [Shapefiles][2]?



  [1]: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2009/documentation.html
  [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile

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Does anyone know of a library in Java that can parse ESRI Shapefiles?