[gdal-dev] Making MITAB to recognize Extented MapInfo TAB

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 3 août 2020 09:26:16 CEST Rahkonen Jukka (MML) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Might be good if the MITAB driver could recognize if TAB file is of the new
> Extented TAB format and show a meaningful error for the users. It could
> save troubles similar to  this one in gis.stackexchange
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/369014/mapinfo-tab-files-with-large
> int-cant-be-converted-to-qgis-or-any-other-format. I hope the new format has
> some magic number that stores the version.

From a comment in the thread, it looks it might be something that could be addressed 
by MITAB with some extra work. We'd need a reproducer dataset to confirm.

Even

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