Hi,
I can only confirm that MITAB is able to generate null-fields in TAB
files, but this is when writing the TAB files directly. I haven't tested
translation with tab2tab.exe.
Regards
Uffe Kousgaard
Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
> Hi,
> I have filed this query as ticket #4337 with GDAL/OGR, but they have
> referred me to this forum.
>
> I am trying to deliver data, via TAB format to Geomedia MDB (then into
> Oracle).
> From my GIS package side I export to MID-MIF then use ogr2ogr to create
> a TAB file, because Geomedia cannot import MIDMIF.
>
> Many of the fields in my MIDMIF file (validly) have no values - that is,
> consecutive delimiters with nothing between them.
> When this data arrives in GeoMedia the numeric fields are zero-filled
> and the text fields have double-quotes.
>
> By way of testing, I have used both ogr and tab2tab to convert from mif
> to tab and back to mif.
>
> I have downloaded and am browsing the tab2tab src code, but if anyone
> can help with a quick pointer as to where the TAB file is loaded, I'd be
> grateful.
>
> (Once I am sure that the TAB file contains NULLs and not empty quotes or
> zeroes, my next trick would be to see how Geomedia treats these fields
> on import......)
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Zoltan
>
>
>
>
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