Converting Shape files into Mapinfo .GST format

[Trinidad Cars]

I have a shape file that I need converted to a .GST file format. I'm
very new to this type of technology and mapping software, so I need
some guidance. I have installed a trial version of mapinfo 10.5 .....

Can someone please give me a hand ....

Jai

[Uffe Kousgaard]

Try:
http://testdrive.mapinfo.com/techsupp/miprod.nsf/kbase_by_product/59DD048FB0A8F09685256FD40066DE53

Kind regards

Uffe Kousgaard
www.routeware.dk

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[Trinidad Cars]

I saw this, and when I do the save the file has very little info, when I look at the data in the file it appears to not have saved anything.

Can you help further?

Jai

[Uffe Kousgaard]

I have never used GST files, so sorry no. Just found the article on Google.

[Thomas Bacon]

Jai,

 

No idea if this will work, but you could try converting the .shp file to .tab using Universal Translator and then converting to .gst.

 

Regards,

Tom

 

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[Thomas Bacon]

Jai,

 

Just a thought, when you say there is very little data in the file, is this when it’s opened in a text editor?  A .gst file only holds information about .tab files (i.e. location, labels, whether it is editable or not, etc…) very much like a workspace, it does not actually hold any of the data within it. To open a .gst in MapInfo you need to use the MapX Geoset utility again and open it from there. This should then open the tab files which were included when it was created.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Tom

 

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[Tim Rideout]

Dear Jai,

Having been through this for a client before, the answer is that you
don't. Your shape file needs to be converted to a .tab file. It is your
workspace that needs to be converted to a .gst file which you do using
the tool from the tool manager. The gst file is actually a text file
that looks very similar to a workspace file and thus is also very small.

Tim

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[Trinidad Cars]

Ok, I'd try to follow this and see what I can come up with. But, I'm using some software that returns lat & long with a street name , a reverse geocode I guess, the software needs a .GST file of the mapping data to be able to do the reverse geocode offline. I'm wondering if a .GST file is small, how can it hold all that mapping data?

If you have any knowledge of this that can help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Jai

[Thomas Bacon]

Jai,

 

The .gst file doesn’t hold the data, it only points to the tab files (which do hold the data).

 

HTH,

 

Tom

 

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[Tim Rideout]

The gst file is just a wrapper. You have to give them all the data as normal .tab files, plus the .gst file so that it knows how to open the .tab files.

 

Regards

 

Tim

 

Dr Tim Rideout

Director

 

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Subject: Re: [MI-L] Converting Shape files into Mapinfo .GST format

 

Ok, I'd try to follow this and see what I can come up with. But, I'm using some software that returns lat & long with a street name , a reverse geocode I guess, the software needs a .GST file of the mapping data to be able to do the reverse geocode offline. I'm wondering if a .GST file is small, how can it hold all that mapping data?

If you have any knowledge of this that can help would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Jai

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Tim Rideout <tim.r...@xyzmaps.com> wrote: