[Qgis-user] MapInfo export issue

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

Hi Paul -

It's maybe not pertinent to case but I tried to export a Postgres-based 
layer to both the MapInfo MIF and Tab file-formats and showing the 
layers afterwards in QGIS - but using QGIS v. *3.22* on Windows 10. It 
worked perfectly.

I checked the first part of the generated MIF text file. It looked fine 
and contained all the necessary parts in the header : version info, 
projection info and data structure info.

Regarding your MapInfo error when reading  MIF/MID: It is probably 
caused by the MIF-file is missing  "Version 300" as the first line - 
causing the MapInfo interpreter to look after it until it find the first 
"Region"  definition in the file (MapInfo speak for polygon).  Why, I 
don't know... But QGIS v. 3.16 is a strange beast.

Did you check if the projection was correctly set in the "Save features 
as" dialog before exporting the data ?


Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Bo Victor Thomsen

Den 01-12-2021 kl. 18:04 skrev Paul Wittle:
>
> Hi,
>
> I’ve tried exporting to MIF instead of a tab file and it generates an 
> error of “Found [region] while searching for [version]” when you try 
> to load it into the MapInfo. The output is also creating an error when 
> QGIS tries to load the data as well although I’m not sure if QGIS 
> could ever directly load MIF files.
>
> The main issue is that if you save to TAB and select “Add saved file 
> to map” it draws in a different place. This feels a bit wrong to me.
>
> In any case we are trying to get people to upgrade to the latest 
> version of MapInfo so GeoPackage is supported. I will just advise our 
> users to export to GeoPackage instead and use that as the main data 
> sharing format instead.
>
> Thanks for all the tips and suggestions though.
>
> Paul
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