Cheers with the new release, it looks very interesting. I'm especially keen to have a look at the new WFS and "freehand draw" features.
But how about native support for MapInfo TAB format ?
I was under the impression that this feature would be present in this release. Is it still planned, and just didn't make it this time ?
Best regards
GisPro
Lars I.
We support MapInfo TAB now! There is a FdoExtension in the latest package, just reference it and you can use TabFileFeatureLayer directly in your code.
By the way, here are all the data formats supported by FdoExtension in the latest version.
(Vector data)
1. MapInfo Tab file (.tab)
2, Esri personal Geodatabase (.mdb)
3, Spatial Data Fild (.sdf)
4. Comma Separated Value (.csv)
5. GeoJSON
6. Géoconcept Export
7. GeoRSS
8. GML
9. GMT
10. GPX
11. INTERLIS
12. KML
13. Microstation DGN
14. Memory
15. S-57 (ENC)
16. SDTS
17. UK .NTF
18. U.S. Census TIGER/Line
19. VRT - Virtual Datasource
20. X-Plane/Flighgear aeronautical data
21. Arc/Info Binary Coverage
22. Arc/Info .E00 (ASCII) Coverage
23. Atlas BNA
(Raster data)
1. Arc/Info ASCII Grid
2. ADRG/ARC Digitilized Raster Graphics (.gen/.thf)
3. Arc/Info Binary Grid (.adf)
4. AIRSAR Polarimetric
5. Magellan BLX Topo (.blx, .xlb)
6. BSB Nautical Chart Format (.kap)
7. VTP Binary Terrain Format (.bt)
8. CEOS (Spot for instance)
9. DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster
10. TerraSAR-X Complex SAR Data Product
11. Convair PolGASP data
12. Spot DIMAP (metadata.dim)
13. ELAS DIPEx
14. First Generation USGS DOQ (.doq)
15. New Labelled USGS DOQ (.doq)
16. Military Elevation Data (.dt0, .dt1, .dt2)
17. ESRI .hdr Labelled EHdr
18. Erdas Imagine Raw
19. NASA ELAS
20. ENVI .hdr Labelled Raster
21. ERMapper (.ers)
22. Envisat Image Product (.n1)
23. EOSAT FAST Format
24. FIT
25. Fuji BAS Scanner Image
26. Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled)
27. GSat File Format
28. WMO GRIB1/GRIB2 (.grb)
29. Golden Software ASCII Grid
30. GSC Geogrid
31. GXF - Grid eXchange File
32. Erdas Imagine (.img)
33. Image Display and Analysis (WinDisp)
34. ILWIS Raster Map (.mpr,.mpl)
35. Intergraph Raster
36. USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2)
37. USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3)
38. JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5)
39. Japanese DEM (.mem)
40. NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set (AVHRR)
41. Erdas 7.x .LAN and .GIS
42. FARSITE v.4 LCP Format
43. Daylon Leveller Heightfield
44. In Memory Raster
45. Vexcel MFF
46. Vexcel MFF2
47. EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat)
48. NLAPS Data Format
49. NITF
50. PCI .aux Labelled
51. PCI Geomatics Database File
52. PCRaster
53. NASA Planetary Data System
54. Netpbm (.ppm,.pgm)
55. Swedish Grid RIK (.rik)
56. Raster Matrix Format (*.rsw, .mtw)
57. Raster Product Format/RPF (a.toc)
58. RadarSat2 XML (product.xml)
59. Idrisi Raster
60. SAR CEOS
61. SGI Image Format
62. Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP)
63. SRTM HGT Format
64. Terragen Heightfield (.ter)
65. TerraSAR-X Product
66. USGS ASCII DEM (.dem)
67. GDAL Virtual (.vrt)
68. X11 Pixmap (.xpm)
Let me know if you have any issues.
Thanks,
Ben
Hi Ben,
Sounds great indeed, but I cannot find FDO in the API docs: gis.thinkgeo.com/mapsuite3docs/webedition/
Are these just not updated to show the new features yet ?
Lars I.
It’s in a separate assembly and that’s why they are not included in that documentation. You can find that assembly under Map Suite Web Full Edition 3.0 \Developer Reference\Spatial Extentions\FdoExtension.
Thanks,
Ben
Ben,
I am excited to hear about MapInfo TAB support. For years we have been converting TABs to shapefiles every quarterly update on a national level. Very time consuming! How is the performance compared to shape files? Is there any ShapeFileFeatureLayer functionality that doesn’t exist in TabFileFeatureLayer? Any downside or overhead?
-Rob
Rob,
I’m excited on that too. We were looking forward this feature for years and finally today we have it :)
Compared with shapefile feature layer, Tab doesn’t support editing. We didn't have a comprehensive performance test but from our simple demo, the performance seems not bad. Sorry I’m not very sure about the downside or overhead, as the extension is mainly a wrapper of the OpenSource one, it should have the same performance overhead as FDO. Here is the link of Feature Data Objects, have a look if you are interested.
fdo.osgeo.org/
Thanks,
Ben
Do you have any examples in VB.NET on how to use the TabFileFeatureLayer?
Is there any documentation?
guy,
Welcome you to ThinkGeo MapSuite forum!
Following is the code snippet from our VB HowDoI samples\Samples\Extending MapSuite\ LoadTabFileFeatureLayer sample.
Map1.MapUnit = GeographyUnit.DecimalDegree
Map1.CurrentExtent = New RectangleShape(-96.51477, 30.759543, -94.355788, 28.910652)
Map1.MapBackground.BackgroundBrush = New GeoSolidBrush(GeoColor.GeographicColors.ShallowOcean)
Dim worldLayer As New TabFileFeatureLayer(MapPath("~/SampleData/world/HoustonMuniBdySamp_Boundary.TAB"), "FID", "OGRSchema", "HoustonMuniBdySamp_Boundary", "GEOMETRY")
worldLayer.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.DefaultAreaStyle = AreaStyles.Country1
worldLayer.ZoomLevelSet.ZoomLevel01.ApplyUntilZoomLevel = ApplyUntilZoomLevel.Level20
Map1.StaticOverlay.Layers.Add("WorldLayer", worldLayer)
Map1.StaticOverlay.TileType = TileType.SingleTile
You can find more samples if you want.
Any more questions just let me know.
Thanks.
Yale
I see above that you say you can support KML files? Can you show an example (C# preferable, but not required) of loading a KML file? All I really want to do is convert it to a shape file, so if you have any input on that, I’d appreciate it.
Thanks!
Kimberly,
We reference the FDO into the product, so Ben said we can use the data format supported by FDO. To manage the KML in FDO, several steps are needed: