Opening mapinfo tables – Pitney Bowes MapInfo Professional User Manual
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• Autodesk AutoCAD DWG/DXF – Supports AutoCAD file versions up to and including 2010
• Bentley MicroStation Design (V7) – Supports Intergraph Standard File Format (ISFF) Version 7
• Bentley MicroStation Design (V8) – Supports Intergraph Standard File Format (ISFF) Version 8
• ESRI ArcInfo Export (.e00) – Supports ArcGIS 10.x
• ESRI ArcSDE – Supports ArcSDE 10.x
• ESRI Geodatabase (MDB) – Supports ArcGIS 10.x
• Google Earth KML – Supports KML 2.2
• MapInfo TAB (MFAL) – Support MapInfo File Access (MFAL) version 2.4.0.3
• Geography Markup Language (GML) - Reader supports GML versions 2.1.2, 3.1.1, and 3.2.1 and
Writer supports GML versions 3.1.1 and 3.2.1
• Esri Geodatabase (File Geodatabase API) Reader/Writer (GDB) - Supports 10.0 File Geodatabases
or higher
To open these data formats in MapInfo Professional, on the File menu point to Open Universal Data.
To translate TAB files using FME in MapInfo Professional, on the Tools menu point to Universal
Translator.
For details about all of the FME supported formats, see FME Readers and Writers (formats supported
by FME 2013) in the FME Desktop Help.
To see what is new in FME 2013, see
Opening MapInfo Tables
Just about everything in MapInfo Professional starts with opening a table. You can display the information
in your tables in a number of ways in MapInfo Professional, as a table, in a browser, and on a map.
To open a local table (which is a data file on your machine):
1. On the File menu, click Open. The Open dialog box displays.
If you are at the Quick Start dialog box (the first dialog box you see after starting MapInfo
Professional), choose the Open button. The Open dialog box displays.
Note:
2. Navigate to the data file you want to open. From the Files of type drop-down list, select the type of
data you will open.
3. From the Preferred View drop-down list, select the view you want of this data .
• Automatic - MapInfo Professional chooses the most appropriate view. If the data is mappable (for
example, graphic objects are attached to the data), for example, MapInfo Professional opens the
table in a Map window. If you have a Map window displayed and the table you want to open is
mappable, MapInfo Professional will automatically open the table in the current Map window. If
the data is not mappable, MapInfo Professional will attempt to open the table in a Browser window.
If the table cannot be mapped or browsed, MapInfo Professional opens the table using the No
View option (no data is displayed).
• Browser - MapInfo Professional attempts to open the table in a Browser window.
• Current Mapper - MapInfo Professional attempts to add your data to the current Map window.
• New Mapper - MapInfo Professional attempts to open the table in a new Map window.
• No View - MapInfo Professional opens the table making the data available for other uses, but no
data is displayed.
When you open a table and select an option in the Preferred View drop-down list, MapInfo
Professional remembers what you selected and uses the same option the next time you
open a table.
Note:
4. Select the Create copy in MapInfo format for read/write to open it in native (.tab) format.
If you do not select the Create copy check box, the file opens read-only.
Note:
5. To open the file, do one of the following:
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