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Hi,

I have received a text file to convert to polygons with donuts but I am unfamiliar with the format. Does anyone have any experience with a file with the following header:

Version 780
Charset "WindowsLatin1"
Delimiter ","
CoordSys Earth Projection 20, 109, "m", 5.387638889, 52.156160556, 0.9999079, 155000, 463000 Bounds (13558, 306866) (278118, 619026)
Columns 1
RxLev Char(9)
Data

Region 789
36733
278118 583666
278038 583666
278038 583746
278038 583825.9999
278038 583906
277958.0001 583906
277958.0001 583986
277878 583986
277798 583986
277718 583986
277638.0001 583986
277558 583986
277478 583986
277478 583906
277398 583906
277398 583986
277318.0001 583986
277238 583986
277158 583986
277158 584065.9999
277078 584065.9999The end of the file has the following information: 7
16518.0001 365666
16438 365666
16438 365585.9999
16438 365506
16518.0001 365506
16518.0001 365585.9999
16518.0001 365666
5
199958 461506
199878 461506
199878 461425.9999
199958 461425.9999
199958 461506
5
119558 386306
119478 386306
119478 386225.9999
119558 386225.9999
119558 386306
Pen (1,0,0)
Brush (1,0,16777215)
Center 145838 462946

 

Any information would be appreciated.Thanks,Annette

It kinda looks like the .mif file of a MapInfo mif/mid pair (the .mif holds the geometry, the .mid holds the data)

If you don't have an accompanying .mid file it might be hard to get this into FME though.

It kinda looks like the .mif file of a MapInfo mif/mid pair (the .mif holds the geometry, the .mid holds the data)

If you don't have an accompanying .mid file it might be hard to get this into FME though.

To elaborate: the .mid file holds all the attributes, it's essentially a comma-separated file. Record 1 in the .mid goes with object 1 in the .mif and so on. You could fake it but you'd have to know how many objects there are in the .mif file

 

 

It kinda looks like the .mif file of a MapInfo mif/mid pair (the .mif holds the geometry, the .mid holds the data)

If you don't have an accompanying .mid file it might be hard to get this into FME though.

I agree with @redgeographics, you'd expect to have a pair of files and assuming you can find them both FME will have no trouble with them using the MapInfo Interchange format MIF/MID. That said, when the files get split up things can get confusing because Windows does quite like to associate the MID file with Windows Media Player, thinking that its some sort of MIDI file! Godd luck tracking it down...

 

Thanks Hans and Dave. Contacting the supplier of the file to get the rest of the data.

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