[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr - create an IND file during MapInfo file export
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Fri Jan 4 17:16:33 EST 2008
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>
> I'm sorry, but ogr2ogr does not appear to support creating .ind files
> for mapinfo datasets. The capability does exist in the underlying MITAB
> library so if you wanted it badly enough you might be able to modify the
> mapinfo driver, or perhaps build a custom mitab utility to do this.
>
If you need to do this only once for a few files, then you could convert
the SHP to MIF/MID, then edit the .MIF header (it's a text file) to add
an INDEX line in the header (just above the COLUMNS line) listing the
numbers of all columns to index. Then rerun ogr2ogr to convert the
MIF/MID dataset to TAB and the specified columns will be indexed.
For more info on the MIF File header format, see:
http://www.directionsmag.com/mapinfo-l/mif/AppJ.pdf
Daniel
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