OGR supports MapInfo. (Mapserver supports MapInfo .map/.tab format).
I've not tried MapInfo maps... never even thought about doing that much,
but MapInfo is *my* GIS package of choice on Windoze as I can do what I
want faster there than with Arc* and can train someone better/faster
than I can on ArcView to accomplish the same tasks ArcView will do.
gerry
Curt, WE7U wrote:
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Stephen Brown Jr wrote:
I also have MapInfo data available to me as well as Precision Mapping and
Street Atlas, as Darryl mentioned it would be useful if we could somehow use
that data as well if xastir supports it?
MapInfo is a GIS program, right? If it's vector data then Xastir
may support it.
This shows up when I start Xastir, with all of the map libraries
enabled:
Built-in map types:
gnis USGS GNIS Datapoints
map APRSdos Maps
map WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
pdb PocketAPRS Maps
Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
geo Image Map (ImageMagick library, many formats allowed)
geo URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
shp ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
tif USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
xpm X Pixmap Maps (XPM library)
tab MapInfo TAB
mid MapInfo MID
mif MapInfo MIF
ddf Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
rt1 US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
s57 International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57
dgn MicroStation DGN
"tab", "mid", and "mif" MapInfo types are listed as supported. This
may not mean "fully" supported, but you should be able to see the
vectors on your screen. It's whether labels are supported at all
and how the lines look (color, width) that you many not have much
control over.
Precision Mapping and Street Atlas are commercial map programs. No,
we don't and won't support snagging their maps. Their license
doesn't allow it. Pretty much extend that statement to any
commercial maps. Luckily there are maps available for most places
in various formats that we _can_ use.
That said, you _can_ use trails/routes/waypoints that National
Geographic Topo users have submitted to the mapXchange site, but
these are user-generated trails, not any of the topo maps
themselves. Anyone needing to extract the user data from Topo,
please check out the latest-latest "gpsbabel" code. It can extract
from version 2.x/3.x/4.x now.
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