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

[Daniel Morissette]

Bill,

I didn't check the version of MITAB that is used in GDAL 1.3.2 (that's 
the version you're using, right?), but there was a bug at some point 
around MITAB 1.5.0 that resulted in invalid .MAP files being generated, 
this may well be what you ran into.

This has been fixed in MITAB 1.5.1 (2006-07-25) but I'm not sure if I 
have updated the GDAL/OGR code with the latest code after the MITAB 
1.5.1 release (doh!).

I am on the road right now, this combined with a computer HD crash so I 
can't backport the latest MITAB source in OGR myself before next week at 
least.

Daniel

P.S. You didn't get any reply to your mutliple posts on this topic last 
week because we were all at FOSS4G2006 in Lausanne. You missed a very 
good week!  ;)


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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