I agree a free viewer is needed and remain mystified by MI's persistent
insistence to make people pay for a viewer, despite repeated failure of
these products on the market.
The information needed to produce a MIF/MID2Tab is available from MI in the
form of a DDK (or used to be). Some of us MI-Lers have it. I don't know
if such a convertor would violate the license agreement. I think we need
George Moon (MI technical lead) to weigh in.
Willing elf,
Sam Kome
Bill Thoen wrote:
> Neil Havermale wrote:
>
> > I/we need information in this debate. Is MIF/MID better than
> > SHP? Is
> > TAB better than SHP. Could MIF/MID become the an "industry"
> > standard?
> > Should it? Will MapInfo ever allow the posting of it's MIF/MID
> > format on
> > the NET? Why or whine not?
>
> Don't worry about the ESRI dreadnought. Since Shape files are not
> strictly Y2K-compliant (they're partly based on the paleolithic
> dBase format), by this time next year ArcView and all its users will
> have gone down leaving nothing but a few bubbles at the center of
> some expanding circular ripples. Either that or it will explode in a
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