[GRASS5] mif

hi,all
i’m a newer to grass, anyone can tell me how to import mapinfo format(MIF, MID)to grass(grass5.3)?
tks

i'm a newer to grass, anyone can tell me how to import mapinfo
format(MIF, MID)to grass(grass5.3)?

v.in.mif exists in 5.0.x and 5.3's source trees, and compiles, but isn't
built by default. There's probably a reason for that (buggy?).

cd src/mapdev/v.in.mif
gmake5
gmakelinks5

In GRASS 5.7, --with-gdal, use:
v.in.ogr
  http://www.remotesensing.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html

Which probably works quite well.

If you've got 5.3 compiling, you can probably get 5.7 going without too
much trouble as well. You can then export to a format 5.3 likes or stick
with 5.7.
[install GDAL first. http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal\]

good luck,
Hamish

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:47:48PM +1300, Hamish wrote:

> i'm a newer to grass, anyone can tell me how to import mapinfo
> format(MIF, MID)to grass(grass5.3)?

v.in.mif exists in 5.0.x and 5.3's source trees, and compiles, but isn't
built by default. There's probably a reason for that (buggy?).

Here should be the answer:
http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grass5/2002-June/009794.html

The fixes applied later seem to be related to compiler/portability
issues.

In GRASS 5.7, --with-gdal, use:
v.in.ogr
  http://www.remotesensing.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html

Which probably works quite well.

If you've got 5.3 compiling, you can probably get 5.7 going without too
much trouble as well. You can then export to a format 5.3 likes or stick
with 5.7.
[install GDAL first. http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal\]

You could simply download a precompiled version to try it
out (Linux, MacOSX, MS-Windows/Cygwin). Some of these builts are compiled
weekly in an automated way.

Markus