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| Subject: | RE: [gislist] Getting MapInfo Text and labels into Shapefiles |
| Date: |
04/26/2004 08:10:01 AM |
| From: |
Richard Nicoll |
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Hi
An alternative option to using attributes and labelling would be to
convert the TAB file into DXF, which retains text.
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: SRG [mailto:raghavendran@pixelinfotek.com]
Sent: 24 April 2004 04:33
To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
Cc: geoscisoft@iinet.net.au
Subject: RE:[gislist] Getting MapInfo Text and labels into Shapefiles
Importance: High
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
______________________________________
R A G H A V E N D R A N . S
GIS Analyst
^12.98N__>77.58E
----- 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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