[GRASS-user] batch conversion of ESRI to MapInfo

[Saber Razmjooei]

Mik

As suggested, better to use ogr2ogr.
if you use linux:
1- Create an empty text file in the folder where your shapefiles are
located
2- Open the text file and copy paste these:

mkdir ./mapinfo
for file in *.shp
do
  ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" mapinfo/$file.tab $file
done

3-save the file as convert.sh
4- from the terminal, run convert.sh
	$ cd /PATH/TO/SHAPEFILES/
	$ sh convert.sh
5- all your mapinfo files should appear under mapinfo folder.

Cheers
Sab



On Sat, 2011-01-29 at 09:15 +0000, Leonidas Liakos wrote:
> What about using ogr2ogr?
> ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" mapinfo.tab input.shp
> You have to write a script for batch conversion.
> 
> 
> --- Στις Σάβ., 29/01/11, ο/η Mick <bareman at tpg.com.au> έγραψε:
>         
>         Από: Mick <bareman at tpg.com.au>
>         Θέμα: [GRASS-user] batch conversion of ESRI to MapInfo
>         Προς: "grass user" <grass-user at lists.osgeo.org>
>         Ημερομηνία: Σάββατο, 29 Ιανουάριος 2011, 9:43
>         
>         I have downloaded several sheets (approx 1600 files) from UK
>         Ordnance
>         Survey open data web site in ESRI shapefile format and OS grid
>         references and now I need to convert them to MapInfo format
>         and real
>         world co-ordinates.
>         
>         I currently have available GRASS and Quantum GIS in linux and
>         Mapinfo
>         4.1 & 5 running in windows emulation. Don't laugh, poverty
>         dictates I
>         can't afford to update.
>         
>         Does anyone know of a better solution than loading each
>         shapefile into
>         QGIS then save as Mapinfo and keeping the OS grid ref.?
>         
>         mik
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