Hello Alicia, Can I offer one more tip on converting TABs to SHPs with the Universal Translator... It's important to note that UT does not build a Shapefile spatial index. This is pretty essential if the data you are sending is more than trivial. ArcView users can open the data as a table (like a Pro browser), select the Shape (obj in Pro) column and create and index. Without the spatial index, large shapefiles will be very painful for your ESRI-based colleagues to use!
Regards, Warren Vick Europa Technologies Ltd. http://www.europa-tech.com -----Original Message----- From: ALICIA COX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SUM: MI-L E-Mailing MapInfo based tables to ESRI people. WOW Lots of responses. Most of whom agreed that using Universal Translator to change the table to a Shape file, with information about the projection used. It would generate .SHP, .SHX, .DBF from each of your tab file Another option was: Export the file to mif/mid format, and send that to him. ESRI has a mif2shape.exe that can convert files from MapInfo to ESRI format. Another option was: Export the tab file to a dbase format (*.dbf). DBF is the native file format for attributes of AV shape files. Another option was: Using Universal Translator to change the table to a *.e00 (export) file. I did all of these in Winzip self-extracting with a similar body of message text as above to help them sort through which is which. Alicia Kaye Cox DHS / CH&P / PMSS 535 W. Jefferson, 3rd Floor Phone: 217 / 524 - 5987 Fax: 217 / 557 - 0515 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
