Daniel, 2 things: First, I wanted to confirm the copyright/licensing of the MITab library. It seems to me if I use it, I just need to include a copyright for...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Sep 7, 2000 11:09 pm
... I never really thought myself about what the requirements would be exactly. As long as there is some kind of recognition somewhere that your software uses...
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Ned Harding
NHARDING@...
Sep 11, 2000 3:57 pm
Daniel, I noticed a bunch of issues in the MITab library that make it not compatible with a multi-threaded program. I think I could make it all...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Sep 11, 2000 5:48 pm
... Ned, You're right, MITAB is not expected to be thread-safe (yet!) I will try to prepare a snapshot of the code in the next 1 or 2 days and send that to...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Sep 11, 2000 6:53 pm
... Ned / Daniel, By all means do a thread clean version of MITAB, but I do have bit of a concern. The CPL code (such as CPLReadLine()) is intended to remain...
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Ned Harding
NHARDING@...
Sep 12, 2000 2:07 pm
Frank, I did not realize that that code is meant to be C compatible, but that shouldn't be a problem at all. Thanks for letting me know. I'll find some way...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Sep 28, 2000 4:44 pm
Folks, I have updated the mitab CVS tree with fixes for all the uninitialized and unused variables I found compiling with "gcc -O2 -Wall". I have also updated...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Oct 4, 2000 2:53 am
MITAB users, I have placed a new release of MITAB (V1.0.2) on the lib's website at http://pages.infinit.net/danmo/e00/index-mitab.html The change log for this...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Oct 15, 2000 2:22 pm
Folks, I was just looking around the web and discovered that Blue Marble Geographics has a TAB reading API as well. Has anyone compared it with MITAB? As far...
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Robert Edwards
EdwardsRG@...
Oct 15, 2000 5:26 pm
... The Blue Marble web page about their "tab" file reader has been around for awhile. At the time it was written, I believe their statement was true (but now,...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Oct 16, 2000 9:42 pm
Folks, I have checked in what I hope to be working support for NonEarth coordinate systems for mif and tab files. NonEarth coordinate systems should now be ...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Oct 18, 2000 3:20 am
... Stephen, I have modified the TABText constructor to initialize m_dWidth to zero, but is that sufficient? I am not really sure. I am cc:ing the mitab list...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Oct 18, 2000 4:07 am
... Frank, I had a look and your fix should be enough since the rest of the code expected m_dWidth to be 0 by default. Thanks, -- ... Daniel Morissette...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Oct 19, 2000 8:47 pm
... I have prepared a new source package (version 1.0.3) that includes the above fix and a couple of others. It's available on the lib's web page at...
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andrewa@...
Nov 6, 2000 3:27 pm
I am trying to using the C++ object TabFile. However I am having problems getting my program to compile with mitab.h and ctype.h. Dose anybody have sample C++...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Nov 6, 2000 7:04 pm
... Andrew, The file tab2tab.cpp that comes with the library does work with the TABFile class. Have you been able to compile it with BCPP? Compiling ...
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andrewa@...
Nov 7, 2000 5:34 pm
... Compiling ... compile ... I have not managed to complile tab2tab.cpp in BCPP. I just get lots of link errors. I have manage to get hold of a copy of VC++...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Nov 8, 2000 3:05 pm
... Andrew, I would rather not distribute VC++ project files because they would always be out of date and thus useless. I think your linker errors only come...
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andrewa@...
Nov 9, 2000 4:40 pm
... files ... Daniel, Thanks for your help it was very much apreciated. I have it working now in VC++ and hopfuly Borland C++ Builder shortly. One last...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:31 pm
... Andrew, There are some operations like creating the OGRFeatureDefn that you need to do only once per file, and you could also use calls like ...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerda@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:34 pm
... Andrew, I will leave Daniel to answer most of the questions, but I should point out a few things. ... The addRing() method makes a copy of the passed...
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Patrick.van.Dijk@...
Nov 10, 2000 1:32 pm
Found some MIF files with tab characters in it. The parser failed to recongize the fields so I have added the \t in the TokenizeStringComplex. It might be...
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Patrick.van.Dijk@...
Nov 10, 2000 1:40 pm
Calling GotoFeature ( 20 ) GotoFeature ( 21 ) Always did the reading from the beginning of the file for both calls. Solved by Remembering the last feature int...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Nov 14, 2000 6:33 am
Hi Patrick, ... Thanks, I've added '\t' to most of the MIF parsing calls. ... I assume that you meant calls to GetFeatureRef() since gotoFeature() is a...
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Patrick van Dijk
Patrick.van.Dijk@...
Nov 14, 2000 1:43 pm
Thanks Daniel, I will try the updated file you send me. And I indeed mean calling GetFeatureRef(20), GetFeatureRef(25), which resets to the beginning of the...
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Daniel Morissette
danmo@...
Nov 15, 2000 5:13 am
... <snip> ... Stephen, That was a problem writing the pen/brush/symbol/font definitions in the file. When the amount of information to write exceeded the...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam@...
Nov 30, 2000 8:27 pm
Daniel, I have been experimenting with an S57 to Mapinfo translation using ogr2ogr, and run into some problems. One issue is that my dataset generates an...
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Lloyd Simons
support@...
Dec 4, 2000 6:05 am
I have just incorporated MITAB code into my shareware mapping system (the WINDOZE version). My compliments to those who wrote the code; it took very little...
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s.cairo@...
Jan 3, 2001 6:18 pm
Hi, I am interesting to have a description of tab,dat,map,ind and id formats. May you help me ? Regards simone...
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Frank Warmerdam
warmerdam@...
Jan 4, 2001 2:12 am
... Simone, I don't believe there is any formal documentation, though you can infer alot of information about the format from the MITAB source code. Best...
