beginner: text region polyline point from MapInfo

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Hi,
 
Correct.  While MapInfo tab is database-like format and can contain everything you may have in MapInfo in a single file, ESRI shapefiles can only have one kind of features in one shapefile set.
 
-Jukka-
 
 

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Aihe: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] beginner: text region polyline point from MapInfo



I've converted all my TAB files from MapInfo to a ESRI Shape file and,
for each TAB file, I got 4 sub-file:

_text.
_polyline.
_region.
_point.

For eachone MapInfo generated .dbf, .prj .shp and .shx files.

I was able to recompose the image using ogrtindex and then tiling,
that is making and index with all the *_region.shp files.

What I'd like to understand, is what exacly those 4 files rappresents.
For example, does the _text rappresent the name of things inside the map ?

Thanks
J

PS: Thanks to all that yesterday gave me so great suggestions! I had
really appreciated the idea of tiling layers and the right way to get
the EXTENT value!