Compatible file formats with MapInfo
Tom Bacon
Hi all,
Wondered if anyone has a list of all compatible file formats with MapInfo 10?
Thanks,
Tom
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Jones, Christopher
Hi Tom,
Just lifted this from the Reference Guide!
Chris
File Format Types Supported
You can open the following file types using the File > Open capability in MapInfo Professional:
• TAB: MapInfo .TAB files (*.tab)
• WOR: MapInfo workspace files (*.wor)
• MDB: Microsoft Access files (*.mdb)
• ACCDB: Microsoft Access 2007 files (*.accdb)
• DBF: dBASE DBF files (*.dbf)
• TXT: Delimited ASCII files (*.txt)
• WKS: Lotus 1-2-3 files (*.wk1, *.wks, *.wk3, *.wk4)
• XLS: Microsoft Excel files (*.xls)
• XLSX: Microsoft Excel 2007 files (*.xlsx)
• SHP: ESRI Shapefiles (*.shp)
File Format Types Supported
80 MapInfo Professional 10
• Raster image files (*.bil, *.sid, *.gen, *.adf, *.img, *.ntf, *.ecw, *.url, *.tif, *.grc, *.bmp, *.gif, *.tga,
*.jpg, *.pcx, *. jp2, *.j2k, *.png, *.psd, *.wmf, *.emf, *.map)
• Grid images (*.adf, *.flt, *.txt, *.asc, *.img, *.dem, *.dt0, *.dt1, *.dt2, *.mig, *.grd)
• CSV: Comma Delimited files (*.csv)
Note Grid Format Direct Support: The following grid handlers support direct read of DEM-USGS
Text (.dem); GTOPO30 (.dem) and DTED levels 1, 2, 3 (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2). These grid handlers
are read-only; they cannot be used to create grid files during the Create Grid Thematic
interpolation process.
Using the Universal Translator, you can import these file format types:
• DWG/DXF: AutoCAD
• E00: ESRI ArcInfo format
• SHP: ESRI Shapefile format
• MID/MIF: MapInfo file formats
• TAB: MapInfo .TAB files
• DGN: Microstation Design files
• CATD.DDF: Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
• FT: Vector Product Format (VPF)
You can import the following file types into MapInfo Professional using Table > Import:
• MIF: MapInfo Professional Interchange Format. MapInfo Professional’s data interchange format
(ASCII file format).
• DXF: The graphic/data interchange format for AutoCAD and other CAD packages.
• MBI: MapInfo Professional Boundary Interchange format. An ASCII file for MapInfo DOS
boundary files.
• MMI: MapInfo DOS MMI
• IMG: A file format for MapInfo Professional for DOS image files.
• GML: OS MasterMap format.
• GML/XML: Geographic Markup Language 2.1 (*.gml, *.xml)
Note You can download raster handlers for NIMA formats such as ADRG, CADRG, ASRP,
CIB, USRP, and NITF formats from the Pitney Bowes Business Insight website or get
them from the Installation CD.
MapInfo Professional imports graphics and textual information from MapInfo Professional
Interchange Format, DXF, MBI, and MMI files. MapInfo Professional imports only graphics from
IMG.
These are the Raster image file formats MapInfo Professional supports:
• MrSID: The MrSID raster handler allows you to open and display raster images compressed in
the MrSID format.
• BMP -- Windows Bitmap. Windows format only: Monochrome: 8 Bit Color, 24 Bit Color
• GIF -- Graphics Interchange Format
• GIF89a Format (non-interlaced only): Monochrome, 8 Bit Color
• JPEG-2000 -- Joint Photographic Experts Group: MapInfo Professional supports creating
JPEG 2000 files using Save Window As and viewing JPEG 2000 files using the LeadTools raster
handler.
• JPEG -- Joint Photographic Experts Group
Chapter 3: The Basics of MapInfo Professional
User Guide 81
• JFIF V1.02 (JPEG File Interchange Format): 8 Bit Gray, 24 Bit Color, No Subsampling, 24 Bit
Color, YUV422 Subsampling, 24 Bit Color, YUV411 Subsampling
• PCX -- ZSoft Paintbrush
• PCX File Format Version 5 (Paintbrush Version 3.0): Monochrome, 8 Bit Gray, 8 Bit Color,
24 Bit Color
• SPOT -- Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre -- Spot Image Formats 1.5 and 4.0: 8 Bit
Gray, Format 1.5, 8 Bit Gray, Format 4.0, 24 Bit Color, Format 1.5, 24 Bit Color, Format 4.0
• TGA -- Truevision TGA Truevision File Format Specification 2.0: 8 Bit Gray, 8 Bit Color, 24
Bit Color
• TIFF -- Tagged Image File Format: TIFF Revision 5.0, Monochrome (Class B),
Uncompressed, Monochrome (Class B), PackBits Compression, 8 Bit Gray (Class G),
Uncompressed, 8 Bit Color (Class P), Uncompressed, 24 Bit Color (Class R), Uncompressed
• PNG – Portable Network Graphics Format
• PSD – Adobe Photoshop Version 3.0
• WMF – Windows Metafile: The raster handler will load a rasterized version of the WMF file.
• ECW – Enhanced Compression Wavlet by ER Mapper
• GRD/GRC – MapInfo Vertical Mapper: GRD files can be treated as either a grid or raster
image. If the associated .TAB file contains a RasterStyle 6 entry, the file will be treated as a grid.
• ASRP – ARC Standard Raster Product to 1.2
• ADRG – ARC Digitized Raster Graphic
• CADRG- Compressed ARC Digitized Raster Graphic
• NITF – National Imagery Transmission Format (version 2.x)
• CIB – Controlled Image Base
• GIF – Graphics Interchange Format
• TIFF LZW– Tagged Information File Format LZW
• TIFF CCITT Group 4– Tagged Information File Format CCITT Group 4
• GeoTIFF
File Limitations for MapInfo Professional Supported Formats
Keep the following notes in mind when working with these MapInfo formats:
• MapInfo Professional only supports the DXF file import to release 13. This has been
superseded by the Universal Translator and Open Universal Data feature.
• The Open Universal Data feature supports all DXF formats up to the current AutoCAD
release. While it is our company’s intention to keep pace with the new releases of FME, if you
extend the application to import AutoCAD DXF files using a newer version of FME before we
have upgraded our product, errors may occur
• You can have maximum 500 files open at a time in MapInfo Professional if you remove the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MapInfo\MapInfo\Common Max Files registry key
• You can have up to 125 files open at a time for editing in MapInfo Professional.
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Barbara Carroll
There is a good list on supported file formats at the Encom Knowledge Base - http://encomkb.encom.com.au/questions.php?questionid=536 check the .pdf files at the bottom of the article.
Best Regards,
Barbara Carroll, CPG
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Hi all,