ogr connecting to .tab files

[Frank Warmerdam]

Donal Regan wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> What I have is a load of .tab files with corresponding .TIF files. The 
> .tab files have  Type : "RASTER" in the definition table so I presume 
> that means they're not supoorted. Does this mean I can't use them as a 
> Mapserver datasource at all? Or can I convert them somehow into a format 
> supported by Mapserver?

Donal,

There have been other discussions of roughly this topic either here or on
gdal-dev recently.  You might want to take a look.  Generally speaking
you can write a script that will translate the .tab files into .wld files
or use them to attach gcps to the .tif files using gdal_translate.

You may also find you can convert them into proper GeoTIFFs with MapInfo.
But currently gdal won't do it all for you.

Sorry,
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