hi all, thanks to all who took time to reply my question. my question was i have created a shape file with its lat/long in decimal degrees. now i wish to overlay some other files on it. when i do it i am not able to see them overlayed. the one that worked for me was the one sent in by vishant. thanks to vishant who asked me to try and exchange x and y axis over latitude and longitude. rekha __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/