Hi, MID/MIF is a very simple ASCII interchange format used by MapInfo. I believe MapInfo exports svg.
Alternatively it would not be much of a project to simply write a translator that would take the mif to svg. Adding mid attributes requires a decision. You can: A. ignore attributes B. add a single attribute in the svg id C. add multiple attributes as custom namespace attributes D. put the attributes in a SQL database like MySQL, PostgreSQL and link the records to your svg through the id attribute. E. Or you can turn them into a GIS system and import both vectors and attributes to PostGIS using something like the ogr translation utilities: http://www.remotesensing.org:16080/ogr/ogr_formats.html This gives you the most flexibility of exporting to svg using geospatial queries, but you have to be able to write your own query result exporter. Example MIF: version 300 Charset "WindowsLatin1" CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 0 columns 3 Layer CHAR(30) Name CHAR(45) Elevation DECIMAL(10,4) data LINE -67.38353230 44.72273359 -67.38208967 44.72243561 Pen (1,02,255) PLINE 6 -67.46127510 44.60689620 -67.46411123 44.60698373 -67.46554349 44.60724517 -67.46670605 44.60835186 -67.46708750 44.60849848 -67.46904664 44.60894944 Pen (1,02,0) PLINE 6 -67.46117178 44.60707425 -67.46407399 44.60716382 -67.46539431 44.60740483 -67.46653682 44.60849242 -67.46698775 44.60866576 -67.46887331 44.60909978 Pen (1,02,0) Associated MID "WATER" "river" 20.00 "WATER" "stream" 5.00 "WATER" "North Platte" 18.00 Possible svg export using method B: <path style="stroke:blue;fill:none;" id="North Platte" d="M-67.46117178 -44.60707425 L-67.46407399 -44.60716382 L-67.46539431 -44.60740483 L-67.46653682 -44.60849242 L-67.46698775 -44.60866576 L-67.46887331 -44.60909978"/> randy -----Original Message----- From: janos_peter_nagy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 7:43 AM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] MID/MIF to SVG conversion Hi, I have a bunch of MID/MIF files and I would like to convert them to SVG format. Can anyone give me a hint of how to do this ? Thanks ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
