Hi Uffe, Make sure you have MITAB_AFFINE_PARAMS defined for your project. Although it appears that this define is optional, it is required otherwise the tab files can't be read in MapInfo as you have found.
Cheers, Martin Martin Higham Avantra Geosystems tel (61 3) 8504 0428 mob 0425 730428 fax (61 3) 9596 7997 www.avantra.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Uffe Kousgaard > Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:37 > To: MITAB > Subject: [mitab] Bug with coordsys? > > > I have a MIF file, which tab2tab converts, but the resulting tab file is > invalid, when I try to open in MapInfo. This is the header: > > Version 300 > Delimiter "," > CoordSys Earth Projection 1, 0 > Columns 1 > Result Decimal(11,3) > Data > Point -72.10072 41.350398 > Symbol(34,0,5) > etc. > > MITAB 1.4.0 translates it OK and MapInfo can also import the MIF > file. MITAB > 1.5.0 Beta 1 has the same error. > > When I look at the headers of the map file generated by version 1.4.0 and > 1.5.0 they are different in the area byte 200-240 (hex), which is affine > projection parameters ?? > > Regards > Uffe > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
