<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:Arial;}</style></head><body><punk.kish@gmail.com><punk.kish@gmail.com>am in a quandry,<br><br>have dense/large multibeam files i wish to display i a GIS for various purposes, essentially XYZ files, in DD WGS84 coordinates, ASCII tab-delimited or Mapinfo mid-mif formats, up to 10-million points plus in a datset. <br>1. have tried GVsig and quantumGIS, but neither seems to like the ascii tab-delimited format.<br>2. Quantum does not like the Mid-mif files i have, and it appears GVsig does not take the format<br><br>Everything open-source GIS seems to want CSV or shapefiles.<br><br>Am i missing an import step in either package which would import these data in either format?<br>IS there a mid to shape converter for point data that might solve my problem (I've tried FWtools)?<br>am i exceeding the display capability of either/both packages?<br><br><br><br></punk.kish@gmail.com></punk.kish@gmail.com></body></html>