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| Subject: | [gislist] Getting MapInfo Text and labels into Shapefiles |
| Date: |
04/23/2004 09:25:01 PM |
| From: |
SCISOFT |
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I would be grateful of any advice on this. I=92m a MapInfo user, and =
need to
export some native TAB files keeping the MI text and labels information
intact. MI has a cut-down FME utility inbuilt, called Universal =
Translator
(UT), but all text gets lost when the SHP-DBF-etc fileset is produced. =20
=A0
After looking on some of the open source GIS project areas, I discovered
what everyone else knows, I guess - that SHP doesn't support text.=20
So what is the best procedure to get "text" (as text or labels) from =
MapInfo
into a form that can be used by a "SHP-consuming" GIS program? (I=92m =
talking
about a non-ESRI target =96 actually Canvas GIS).
=A0
One idea I have is: (in MI) to put all "text" into attribute fields, =
that
are exported into the .DBF (accompanying .SHP), and then read that out =
again
within the "SHP-consuming" program.=20
=A0
Any help / suggestions welcome.=20
=A0
IL Thomas
GeoSciSoft
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