[Qgis-user] QGIS - Mapinfo question

[Alister Hood]

The other main problem is that no, QGIS can't understand a .tab file for a raster, although you could write a script to convert .tab to .jgw (and vice versa).
Going the other direction, I'm not sure if Mapinfo can currently understand a world file, but it certainly looks like it couldn't in the past (Maybe your friend could see if the Mapbasic code at http://free-zg.t-com.hr/gorantt/geo/tfw2tab.htm works though...)
I presume it isn't an option to use an image format with embedding georeferencing information (e.g. you could use a geotiff with jpeg compression)?

Alister


> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:36:34 +0200
> From: Bo Victor Thomsen <bo.victor.thomsen at gmail.com>
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> Robert -
> 
> AFAIK you can't (directly) write/edit geometries in tab based layer in
> QGIS.
> 
> However, you can create a new _shape_ layer, do the adding/editing in
> this layer and then right-click the layer in the layer manager and
> choose the "Save As" menu option. The "save as" dialogue gives you the
> possibility to save the (shape) layer as a tab-file.
> 
> Another option is directly to send the shape file to your MapInfo user.
> MapInfo can read and use shape files.
> 
> Regards
> Bo Victor Thomsen
> Aestas-GIS
> Denmark