MITAB users, Due to the high number of issues reported in MITAB 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, I have posted a new MITAB 1.6.2 release a few minutes ago that (hopefully) fixes all known issues reading and writing TAB files.
One of the important changes in this release is that the optimized spatial index mode which was added in v1.6.0 has been disabled by default in v1.6.2 because we have found that the files that it produces, while still readable by MITAB itself could confuse MapInfo. I plan to have a new release in a month or so that will fix this and allow the use of the optimized spatial index mode again. Wondering if you should upgrade? - If you were using version v1.6.0 or v1.6.1 then you are strongly advised to upgrade to v1.6.2 since it is definitely better than those two. - If you are still using v1.5.1 or older then you may want to wait a little bit until we have more feedback on the quality of v1.6.2 before upgrading. The new release is available on the website at http://mitab.maptools.org/ The list of changes in this release is included below. Best Regards, Daniel Version 1.6.2 (2007-07-12) -------------------------- *** *** *** *** *** - IMPORTANT: The optimized spatial index introduced in V1.6.0 has been disabled by default in this release after we found that the current block splitting technique often produces files that confuse MapInfo (bug 1732). The Quick Spatial Index Mode is used by default until bug 1732 is fixed. *** *** *** *** *** - Fixed error reading compressed text objects introduced in v1.6.0 (bug 1722) - Fixed memory leaks when reading multipoint objects from .MIF files - Added IMapInfoFile::SetCharset() method (bug 1734) - Added TABFile::TwoPointLineAsPolyline() to allow writing two point lines as polylines (bug 1735) - Added missing cast in isspace() calls to avoid failed assertion on Windows (MITAB bug 1737, GDAL ticket 1678)) - Fixed memory leak when writing .TAB with new (optimized) spatial index introduced in v1.6.0 (bug 1725) - Fixed another issue related to attempting to read past EOF while writing collections (bug 1657) - Fixed a problem writing collections where collection objects were trashed during object block splitting (bug 1728) - Fixed support for predefined datums with non-greenwich prime meridians per http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1416 - Updated mitab_dyn.pas to support both Delphi and Kylix (contrib by UffeK and MaximV, bug 1746) - Added support for building libmitab.so shared lib (contrib by UffeK and MaximV, bug 1746) - Avoid deprecation warnings for some common functions with VC7+ (bug 1749) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mitab/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
