Hi Paul -
It's maybe not pertinent to case but I tried to export a Postgres-based
layer to both the MapInfo MIF and Tab file-formats and showing the
layers afterwards in QGIS - but using QGIS v. *3.22* on Windows 10. It
worked perfectly.
I checked the first part of the generated MIF text file. It looked fine
and contained all the necessary parts in the header : version info,
projection info and data structure info.
Regarding your MapInfo error when reading MIF/MID: It is probably
caused by the MIF-file is missing "Version 300" as the first line -
causing the MapInfo interpreter to look after it until it find the first
"Region" definition in the file (MapInfo speak for polygon). Why, I
don't know... But QGIS v. 3.16 is a strange beast.
Did you check if the projection was correctly set in the "Save features
as" dialog before exporting the data ?
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards
Bo Victor Thomsen
Den 01-12-2021 kl. 18:04 skrev Paul Wittle:
Hi,
I’ve tried exporting to MIF instead of a tab file and it generates an
error of “Found [region] while searching for [version]” when you try
to load it into the MapInfo. The output is also creating an error when
QGIS tries to load the data as well although I’m not sure if QGIS
could ever directly load MIF files.
The main issue is that if you save to TAB and select “Add saved file
to map” it draws in a different place. This feels a bit wrong to me.
In any case we are trying to get people to upgrade to the latest
version of MapInfo so GeoPackage is supported. I will just advise our
users to export to GeoPackage instead and use that as the main data
sharing format instead.
Thanks for all the tips and suggestions though.
Paul
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