title: Extracting Boundary information from a shapefile
body: <p>I'm using shapefiles for the first time, and I'm trying to create a database with the boundaries of each polygon in it. So far, using qgis and the .dbf file, I have been unable to figure out how to do this. Is there a way to get the boundaries from a shapefile?</p>
  
  <p>I am using the zip code shapefile from the Census Bureau. Here is a link.
  <a href="https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_zcta.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_zcta.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>