[postgis-users] Re: load mapinfo to postgres

Richard Greenwood richard.greenwood at gmail.com
Mon Jul 4 20:21:14 PDT 2005


Herman Teo <hsutanti <at> umich.edu> writes:

> 
> Hi.
> I'm new to this mapserver model. I have a lot of mapinfo .tab files that I want
> to load into the postgis database. Is there a well documented tutorial on how
> to perform ogr2ogr from mapinfo .tab to postgis dbase?
> Thanks a lot.
> 
> Herman
> 

Try something like:

  ogr2ogr -f postgresql PG:dbname=your_db_name your_tab_file.TAB

Rich Greenwood




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