[Gdal-dev] ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" -- Does this even work at all?!?

[Bill Thoen]

I've now tried several other data sources (from postgres and from
shapefile) and ogr2ogr never creates a MapInfo table that can be opened by
MI 8.0 or 8.5. However, if I add -dsco FORMAT=MIF and set the
dst_datasource to something with a .MIF extension, it works just fine. So
it looks like something's wrong with the MITAB driver regarding TAB file
creation. 

Can anyone else confirm this, or do I have a local problem?


On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:03:26PM -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
> I've got a spatial database in postgres that I can extract to shp 
> format, no problem. But when I try:
> 
> ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" napp1.tab PG:dbname=spatial2 napp1
> 
> it appears to build a MapInfo TAB file with no errors (I've read the 
> caveats on http://ogr.maptools.org/drv_mitab.html, and that page wasn't 
> easy to find either). But when I try to open it in MapInfo 8.5, I get an 
> error "Unable to open table napp1.tab." The problem is not with the .tab 
> or .dat file; if I rename the .id and .map to something else, I can open 
> that table as if it were non-mappable table.
> 
> When I check the table with ogrinfo, it appeasrs normal with a 
> geographic coordinate system (WGS 84) with units in degrees -- i.e. 
> pretty basic. The map features are simple MULTIPOLYGON types. I've tried 
> all kinds of variations to try and get a MapInfo table out of this 
> utility, but so far the only way that works is to dump it as shp and 
> then convert it with *MapInfo's* conversion utility. Not what I was 
> hoping for.
> 
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong or suggest something I can try 
> to get it to work?
> 
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