[Qgis-user] MapInfo Attribures

[Chris Berens]

Have a look at Nyall's answer to this from 2014:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/95085/qgis-analyst-create-finished-product-for-mapinfo-client

Although I don't see OpenWor as a currently supported plugin.

Chris Berens, GISc
www.mapland.co.za
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On 4 August 2016 at 00:32, Ramon Andiñach <custard at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> I understood from discussions with dms some time ago that at least for
> simple styles, its theoretically possible as the underlying ogr library can
> within limits see the details. Note lots of caveats, the file that keeps
> this information, is like with esri, binary and proprietary.
>
> For my end of exploration, this is a key step for qgis adoption, but I've
> never been in a position to be able to get anything done about it.
>
> I did at one point knock up some linux shell scripts to help with this.
> It's not helped by the fact that mapinfo is not case sensitive, so to it
> SHCC, SHCc, SHcc, Shcc, shcc, etc are all the same.
>
> -ramon.
>
>
> On 03/08/2016, at 17:52 , damien stephens wrote:
>
> > If you have MapInfo wth discover, you can save the colour scheme for
> each polygon as a new column in the tab file, then use that to colourise it
> via the properties, styles menu in qgis.
> > Failing that if you have a screen grab of the map/tab file you can
> categorise the features   in qgis  by one of the other attributes then use
> the colour dropper tool to select each of the colours. It can be very
> laborious for a large and multicoloured map, but does get a very similar
> output.
> >
> > Other than those options, I haven't seen a MapInfo colourise plugin.
> > Any developers out there want to knock one up?
> > Cheers
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 15:18 Grant Boxer <boxerg at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> > Is there a way to import MapInfo tab files into QGIS that preserves the
> patterns and colours?
> >
> >
> >
> > Grant Boxer
> >
> > Perth, Western Australia
> >
> >
> >
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