Murali,<br><br>The mapinfo driver is not known for creating datasets with good precision. Projected coordinates can have an error of up to 0.02<br><br><a href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html">http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html</a><br>
<a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/autotest/ogr/ogr_mitab.py#L106">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/browser/trunk/autotest/ogr/ogr_mitab.py#L106</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Murali Krishna <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muralikrishna50@gmail.com" target="_blank">muralikrishna50@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm trying to create a MapInfo file using gdal ogr java bindings (version 1.9.0) with some point geometries.<br>However the geometries in the created MapInfo file doesn't actually match with the values which i have used in creation.<br>
<br>For example, I create a MapInfo feature with a point geometry and with the following coordinates:<br>X = 196153.123 <br>Y= 272453.6789<br><br>When i read the same feature back, GDAL gives the following as coordinates for the same feature:<br>
X = 196153.12630125193 <br>Y = 272453.67830354505<br><br>Any reason why MapInfo driver changes these coordinates?<br><br>Thanks in advance<br>
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