ogr connecting to .tab files

[Frank Warmerdam]

Donal Regan wrote:

> If I do ogrinfo or ogr2ogr on my '.tab' files , I get the following error
> 
> Unable to open datasource `../jmc25kRaster/' with the following drivers. etc
> 
> Error

Donal,

Is it possible that your tab file is really a "raster tab", that is a .tab
file describing a raster file, rather than part of a vector dataset (usually
a .tab, .id, .map and .dat)?  If so, you are out of luck as OGR (nor GDAL)
support .tab labelled rasters.

Best regards
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