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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Dear list members,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">right after FOSSGIS</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> 2011 in Dessau I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m very curious about using QGIS</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">in addition to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> MapInf</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">o Professional in my</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">organization</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Unfortunately I could not find out</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> yet</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, how to edit MapInfo</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">TAB</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> files</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> directly</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">. The button to activate</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">edit mode</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> keeps inactive whatever I try. When I go ahead to save a MapInfo TAB-file</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">into SHAPE-format</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> editing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> this file</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> isn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">`t a problem. Saving</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">this file</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> to MapInfo TAB-format and opening</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> it again</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">, I can</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t get into edit mode</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> once again</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> ;-(</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">But s</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">houldn`t it be possible to edit Map</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Info TAB-Format since the OGR-driver supports reading and editing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> this format</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">By the way I installed the latest version</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> QGIS from OSGEO4W-distribution</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> with GDAL support.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m sorry to ask</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">you</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">such an basic question, but I did not find an answer anywhere else yet.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So please be patient</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> with me</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and let me know what I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">m doing wrong.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thank you so far,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Best regards</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Andreas</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="de"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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