Municipal Level Maps

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Is there anywhere that I can get statewide maps with municipal borders (cities, townships, etc.)?  I'd like to use them for new maps that aren't available on the main site.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

You can download county subdivision shapefiles for all states from the US Census.

Here is the portal for accessing the files. Here is the page for downloading county subdivision shapefiles. They are listed by FIPS code, which you can look up here (e.g. Michigan is listed as tl_2014_26_cousub). If you have municipality-level results, these are probably the geographic units that those results apply to, or at least that's the case in any state that I've considered.

Here is a PNG that I just exported from Michigan's county subdivisions shapefile. Ideally, you'd want to work with a SVG, but this is probably good enough for some purposes:

Thanks.    Can you convert shapefile to SVG or PNG, and if so, how?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Thanks.    Can you convert shapefile to SVG or PNG, and if so, how?

Why would you want to? It is much easier to auto-color a shapefile than to individually color in shapes by hand, if you know what you're doing. But if you really wanted to convert a shapefile to png, I suppose you could always use a screen printing tool to save what is on the screen as a png file.  I'd have to check MapWindows GIS to see if there is a direct shapefile to png converter built in.  I'm sure there are some stand alone programs that do it, too.  Just Google "shp to png".

I know next to nothing about GIS.  I've thought about taking classes, though.

I guess the question I'm really trying to ask is how you were able to convert that map to PNG.