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Some data contains the coordinate system information in it and others do not, so you may need to
specify the coordinate system projection for the data you are opening.
9. Click OK.
10. In the Select Layers dialog box, select which layers you want to include in the output. By default all
layers are selected.
To set display characteristics for one or all of the layers, see Changing Display Settings for Universal
Data in the Help System.
11. In the Directory field, type the location to save the output to or browse to select a location.
12. From the Preferred View drop-down list, select whether you want to view the output in a Map window
(Current Mapper or New Mapper) or in a table (Browser).
13. Click OK.
If you did not specify the coordinate system in
and the coordinate system is unknown, the
Choose Projection dialog box displays, so that you can select the projection for the data you are
opening. The system defaults to your Table Projection setting in the Map Window Preference if you
do not select a projection here.
The data opens in MapInfo Professional.
Working with the FME Suite
If you install the FME Suite from Safe Software, you can open even more formats from within MapInfo
Professional. To extend MapInfo Professional to use these additional formats, use the FME Integration
Console that ships with the FME Suite. There are a couple of caveats to keep in mind:
• Make sure that the version of the FME Suite that you are using is the same version or later than that
which has been integrated with MapInfo Professional. This means you must have FME Suite 2013 or
later. This works on a build number basis, so even a minor update to MapInfo Professional or FME
Suite could result in discrepancies between the products and could prevent you from opening particular
formats.
• Pitney Bowes Software Inc. localizes the dialog boxes of the FME product that we use in MapInfo
Professional. However, when you extend MapInfo Professional with the FME Suite, this functionality
is effectively run from the FME Suite, using the FME Suite dialog boxes.
For example, if you are running the Japanese version of MapInfo Professional and you install the
English version of the FME Suite, the dialog boxes that display for this feature will be in English. If you
revert to the MapInfo Professional implementation of this feature, the translated dialog boxes will
display in Japanese.
Raster/grid formats and MapInfo TAB/MIF formats are not available when you extend MapInfo
Professional with the FME Suite.
Note:
For more information see Extending MapInfo Professional with FME Suite in the Help System.
Understanding MapInfo Professional's Use of the Topography Layer
OSGB MasterMap's Topographic Layer contains nine themes including roads, tracks and paths, buildings,
landforms, water, height, heritage, structures, and administrative boundaries. You can import these
themes as TopographicArea, LandformArea, TopographicLine, TopograpicPoint, CartographicText,
CartographicSymbols, BoundaryLines, and DepartedFeatures. The TopographicArea feature type
contains two 'complexes', Topography and Landform, which contain different polygons of information.
The Landform polygons overlap the Topography polygons (which represent land features like slopes
and cliffs).
We split the TopographicArea feature type output into two layers so it is possible to save them in different
tables. The TopographicArea table contains only output whose areas defined in the OSGB user guide
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