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MapInfo Professional is a desktop GIS produced by Pitney Bowes Business Insight.

MapInfo Professional is a desktop GIS produced by Pitney Bowes Business Insight and used for location analytics. MapInfo Professional is capable of performing complex spatial analysis, and is programmable and highly customizable using the proprietary scripting language MapBasic and the provided development environment. MapInfo is a direct competitor to ESRI and is used in a wide range range of industries.

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How can I read Mapinfo files in R

The French national institute (Insee) provides geographical data in the MapInfo format (two files .mid and .mif and one dbf file). How can I read those files in R ? Here is one example.
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does anyone know a good mapinfo forum?

I'm new using mapinfo and I am going to work a lot with it. I haven't been able to find a good forum, making it impossible to get community driven assistance. I wish any of you could tell me if there is a good place to find mapinfo related…
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How do I convert ESRI or MapInfo GIS data to images using free tools?

The Australian Electoral Commission has free ESRI and MapInfo formate GIS layers of Australian electoral boundaries for download. I want to convert this data to a thumbnail polygon image using a free tool.
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How do I avoid geometry issues when importing MapInfo data into PostGIS?

I'm facing a problem dealing with Australian census collection shapes provided in MapInfo format by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. I am loading these into a PostGIS database using the ogr2ogr tool, which works for a majority of the shapes, but…
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How to load mapinfo file into geopandas

I suspect this is a trivial question to answer but how do I load mapinfo mid/mif files into geopandas? While it's trivial to load and manipulate .shp files, I can't work out what code to use: Here's a few examples of the data I'm trying to play…
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How to get instance from calling application

I have a plugin for a third-party application that calls a C#.NET method and I need to get the instance from the calling application. _MapInfoApplication = (MapInfo.MapInfoApplication)…
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How to create MapInfo Tab file using external data (XML, SQL Server) with .NET

I need a way to create MapInfo tab (and associated files, IDX, DAT etc) package using .NET (C Sharp) and preferably, an open source (free) library? I have some data with associated GIS (longitude/latitude etc) informtion and I want to create MapInfo…
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DllImport works 32-bit, fails 64-bit (AccessViolationException)

I have built an extension for MapInfo Pro using .Net in C#. Older versions of MapInfo are 32-bit applications, the newest are 64-bit. I want my extension to work with both. While a lot functionality of MapInfo can be called using .Net, some of them…
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Java API for parsing MapInfo TAB format

I am working on parsing a MapInfo TAB Format file in Java. It consists of a set of four files viz .TAB, .ID, .MAP and .DAT. After searching on web I came across a parser provided by GeoTools at this repository:…
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ogr2ogr from MIF/MID to GeoJSON

I'm trying to convert a .mif file to GeoJSON. I've got .mif, .mid and .dbf. But when I convert it, the properties included in .dbf are not rendered in the GeoJson file. The command I use is : ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON file.json file.mif. Is there something…
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Python GDAL/OGR : how to create a MapInfo TAB file?

Using import gdal,ogr, and given an EPSG (e.g. here 2154), what is the code in python to write a (nearly) empty MapInfo TAB file, or just the summary line of the projection (TAB format) : CoordSys Earth Projection…
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SQL - Split query data stream into 2 separate tables [Theoretical Optimisation]

I am writing some SQL code to be run in MapBasic (MapInfo's Programming language). The best way to describe the question is with an example: I want to select all records where ShipType="Barge" into a query named Barges and I want all the remaining…
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How can I distinguish between polylines and curved lines in MapInfo files read by mitab?

I'm using the mitab.dll to read MapInfo files (*.tab + friends). These files may contain simple polylines and also curved lines. So far, I have been unable to distinguish between these two and read everything as polylines. Is there any mitab-API…
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How to convert mapinfo projection to proj4

I have some projection string exported by MapInfo, but I can't find way to convert them into proj4 string, could any one help me with this? Here is the string: "CoordSys Earth Projection 8, 104, "m", 29, 0, 1, 0, 0" "CoordSys Earth Projection 8,…
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Creating Regions in Python

I am trying to use Python to create a simple solution. I have latitude and longitude of various areas, alongside their ID number and a code. The code is used to define regions. Say three locations (near to each other) have the same code, so they…
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