[GRASS5] Re: missing mapinfo support

[Allan Metts]

Hi Michael,

Your MapInfo conversion instructions were tremendously helpful.  Thank you 
so much for posting them.  I was just about to go digging for the missing 
MIF import routines, so telling me they are broken (and intentionally 
omitted) just saved me a headache.

A question:  Your "Alternate 2" (converting to a shape file) seems much 
simpler than "Alternate 1" for importing lines and polygons.  Is there a 
downside to doing the shapefile conversion?

And everyone else:  Let me echo Michael's Plea:  If there's a better way, 
please speak up!

Thanks again,

Allan


At 11:41 AM 11/22/2003, Michael Barton wrote:

>I have had to deal with this difficulty because a lot of my old data and 
>that of collaborators is in MapInfo. Both v.in.mif and s.in.mif have 
>broken for quite some time. Unfortunately, they were never removed from 
>the manual. To get MapInfo point data into GRASS is relatively trivial, 
>but line and poygon data are much more problematic.