Another option, if you really had to use .CSV as input would have been to use OGR's ogr2ogr utility (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr2ogr.html), but that would be a bit more complicated than converting mif/mid using tab2tab:
1- Create a OGR Virtual DataSource to make your CSV file readable by OGR as a point layer, see http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_vrt.html e.g. create a worms.vrt file like this: <OGRVRTDataSource> <OGRVRTLayer name="worms"> <SrcDataSource>worms.csv</SrcDataSource> <SrcLayer>worms</SrcLayer> <GeometryType>wkbPoint</GeometryType> <LayerSRS>WGS84</LayerSRS> <GeometryField encoding="PointFromColumns" x="easting" y="northing"/> </OGRVRTLayer> </OGRVRTDataSource> 2- Use ogr2ogr to convert to .TAB, see http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr2ogr.html e.g. ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" output.tab worms.vrt worms I didn't test the examples above, just wrote them off the top of my head, but hopefully that gives you the idea. As I wrote above, going MIF/MID -> TAB using tab2tab may be simpler if you can do that. Daniel stu_j.rm wrote: > > > OK, so I read around the subject a bit and realised that the MIF/MID > combination is perfect, as they're an ASCII representation of the > MapInfo data. > > I can now take my XML source, create the MIF/MID with XSLT, and feed > the results into TAB2TAB to generate the MapInfo TAB file. > > Hope this helps someone else... > > Cheers > Stuart > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:mitab%40yahoogroups.com>, > "stu_j.rm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings List > > > > I'm looking for a utility which will convert a CSV file containing > > eastings and northings into a MapInfo TAB file, where those > > coordinates have been converted to point objects. I don't know if such > > a thing exists, but wonder whether MITAB will do the job. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > > Regards > > Stuart Jones > > > > -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ 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/
