Can I export MapInfo "styleitem" info to PostGIS?

[Flavio Hendry]

Hi Jacob

I do not think that you could do that as the moment. FME (www.safe.com)
would bring the styles along to PostGIS. However there is no way to
define any other STYLEITEM as "auto" at the moment. "auto" is more or
less limited to colors as far as I know. Ideal would be something like
COLORITEM pointing to a column containing RGB color info ...

Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
Flavio Hendry

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Delfos, Jacob" <Jacob.Delfos at MAUNSELL.COM>
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:54:32 +0800
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Can I export MapInfo "styleitem" info to
PostGIS?

> 
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm in a situation where I have a huge amount of layers, and manually
> symbolising is not practical. All data is in MapInfo, which has the
> advantage that I can use "styleitem auto".
> However, due to a number of reasons I'll probably have to convert the
> setup to PostGIS. The question:
> 
> Is it possible to carry the MapInfo style information across as an
> attribute, and point the styleitem to this attribute?
> 
> Ogrinfo does not reveal any style-information, so ogr2ogr can not
> bring it across. Is there a solution to this? It would be absolutely
> ideal to be able to store symbology in PostGIS.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jacob
> 
> 
> JACOB DELFOS
> GIS ANALYST
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> 
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