I have a customer looking for a good source of map shape file data for some level of granularity of geographic shapes (say administrative area of Brazil and state for India). If you know of a reliable source please reply here. Thanks.
Peter,
In the past, I've had success by searching the territory name and the word "shapefile" or dbf and/or shp. You may need to use the spelling based on the official language of the region from which the map comes (e.g., I found the Brazilian maps using "Brasil" and "shapefile"). Not all maps may be free. I was looking for the six character Candian postal codes a few years ago only to find that you need to pay for them (I think they're free now, though).
Don
If they have access to SAS, they can use this to get JMP files from SAS map files:
https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Add-Ins/SAS-Map-Importer/ta-p/22341
