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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi List,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I'm in a situation where I have a huge amount of layers, and manually symbolising is not practical. All data is in MapInfo, which has the advantage that I can use "styleitem auto".</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">However, due to a number of reasons I'll probably have to convert the setup to PostGIS. The question:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Is it possible to carry the MapInfo style information across as an attribute, and point the styleitem to this attribute?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Ogrinfo does not reveal any style-information, so ogr2ogr can not bring it across. Is there a solution to this? It would be absolutely ideal to be able to store symbology in PostGIS.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jacob</FONT>
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