MapInfo .TAB files are already spatially indexed. On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:46 +0100, Marco Hugentobler wrote: > Hi Veljo, > > QGIS uses the OGR library to access Map Info datasources. The OGR page > (http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html) says that it does not support update > of existing datasets, so you cannot edit those files in QGIS. Creation of > spatial index through the QGIS GUI is only provided for shapefiles. > > Each data provider in QGIS has different capabilities with respect to > editing. > Editing is provided for shapefiles (through OGR), PostGIS databases, GPS and > also GRASS data (with the editing interface of the GRASS plugin). > > All the best, > Marco > > Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2007 11:29 schrieb veljo: > > hi again, > > > > nobody able to comment? > > > > v. > > > > veljo wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > > > I'm pretty new to GIS in general but the QGIS 0.8.0 (my nearly first GIS > > > software) I manged to install on Suse 10.0 (if somebody needs assistance > > > I could provide, that wasn't so straightforward, took me 2 days)... > > > > > > Ok, so I have some of my GPS data (WP's etc), and Map Info vector layers. > > > Originally Mapinfo has several layers on top of each other, I have them > > > in one file to import at once into QGIS. Everything looks fine but... I > > > cannot enable editing for layers originating from MapInfo either Create > > > spatial indexing for the same layers:-( GPS WPs are fine for that.... > > > Should be that possible or not? Maybe with GRASS? Grass I touched as > > > well a bit as I had some other layers coming as ArcInfo .e00 files with > > > were quite nicely imported via Grass > > > > > > cheers, > > > veljo > > > > > > ps sorry when these questions have been risen already, I tried to search > > > a bit but didn't find > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.qgis.org > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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