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