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MapInfo (MAPINFO/MITAB) Quick Facts

About Quick Facts Tables

Format Type Identifier

MAPINFO

MITAB

Reader/Writer

Both

Licensing Level

Base

Dependencies

None

Dataset Type

Folder or File

Feature Type

File base name

Typical File Extensions

.tab (.dat, .id, .map, .ind)

Automated Translation Support

Yes

User-Defined Attributes

Yes

Coordinate System Support

Yes

Generic Color Support

Yes

Spatial Index

Always

Schema Required

Yes

Transaction Support

No

Geometry Type

mapinfo_type

Encoding Support Yes

MAPINFO/MITAB Geometry Support

Geometry

Supported?

aggregate

yes

circles

yes

circular arc

yes

donut polygon

yes

elliptical arc

yes

ellipses

yes

line

yes

none

yes

point

yes

polygon

yes

raster

no

Most raster format writers (including TIFF, GeoTIFF, JPG, ECW, and PNG) support generation
of Mapinfo-compatible rasters, by setting the Generate TAB File format parameter to Yes.

solid

no

surface

no

text

yes

z values

no