[Qgis-user] MapInfo Attribures

[Ramon Andiñach]

I understood from discussions with dms some time ago that at least for simple styles, its theoretically possible as the underlying ogr library can within limits see the details. Note lots of caveats, the file that keeps this information, is like with esri, binary and proprietary.

For my end of exploration, this is a key step for qgis adoption, but I've never been in a position to be able to get anything done about it. 

I did at one point knock up some linux shell scripts to help with this. It's not helped by the fact that mapinfo is not case sensitive, so to it SHCC, SHCc, SHcc, Shcc, shcc, etc are all the same.

-ramon.


On 03/08/2016, at 17:52 , damien stephens wrote:

> If you have MapInfo wth discover, you can save the colour scheme for each polygon as a new column in the tab file, then use that to colourise it via the properties, styles menu in qgis.
> Failing that if you have a screen grab of the map/tab file you can categorise the features   in qgis  by one of the other attributes then use the colour dropper tool to select each of the colours. It can be very laborious for a large and multicoloured map, but does get a very similar output.
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> Other than those options, I haven't seen a MapInfo colourise plugin.
> Any developers out there want to knock one up?
> Cheers 
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> On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:18 Grant Boxer <boxerg at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Is there a way to import MapInfo tab files into QGIS that preserves the patterns and colours?
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> Grant Boxer
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