Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2007 11:48 schrieb Veljo Kisand: > Marco Hugentobler wrote: > > Hi Veljo, > > > > QGIS uses the OGR library to access Map Info datasources. The OGR page > > (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html) says that it does not support > > update of existing datasets, so you cannot edit those files in QGIS. > > Creation of spatial index through the QGIS GUI is only provided for > > shapefiles. > > > > Each data provider in QGIS has different capabilities with respect to > > editing. Editing is provided for shapefiles (through OGR), PostGIS > > databases, GPS and also GRASS data (with the editing interface of the > > GRASS plugin). > > > > All the best, > > Marco > > Fine, thanks for answer. Any hope to convert MapInfo layers to anything > else - to these shapefiles? GRASS or other linux based stuff?
The command line utility 'ogr2ogr', which comes as add-on with the GDAL/OGR library can do the conversion between MapInfo format and shapefiles (and other file formats as well). Marco _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
