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| Subject: | RE:[gislist] Getting MapInfo Text and labels into Shapefiles |
| Date: |
04/23/2004 10:40:00 PM |
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SRG |
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Hi Thomas,
What you have guessed is absolutely right, SHP does not support text.
Instead you have something called labels/ annotation of point features.
Text features are usually transferred as points (usually the insertion point
of the text feature) into SHP format.
Additionally you can add the text string as an attribute to this point
feature, probably change the colour to something invisible, if you want to
hide the points from being seen by the user.
Then once this point shape file is inside your application, you can set the
labels, which will appear like the text you had in MapInfo.
All this can be accomplished with the full version of FME Universal
Translator, a free 14 day fully functional evaluation copy can be downloaded
at this link:
http://www.safe.com/evaluation/index.php
Cheers
SRG
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GIS Analyst
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----- Original Message -----
From: "SCISOFT" <geoscisoft@iinet.net.au>
To: <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:34 AM
Subject: [gislist] Getting MapInfo Text and labels into Shapefiles
> I would be grateful of any advice on this. I'm 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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'm
talking
> about a non-ESRI target - actually Canvas GIS).
>
> 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.
>
> Any help / suggestions welcome.
>
> IL Thomas
> GeoSciSoft
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