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Improve the support of MapInfo symbology / styles in databases

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  • November 2, 2016
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revesz
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MapInfo supports per row symbology in all supported databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostGIS, SQL Light).

It would be nice if all these database readers and writers support MapInfo Symbology not just Oracle Spatial Object reader.

Storing the per row style is the same in all databases as in Oracle: the symbology string (which is the same as in MIF format) is stored in a column usually called MI_STYLE.

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lifalin2016
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  • November 21, 2016

I built myself a "MapInfoStyleEncoder" transformer for this. It converts the available MapInfo themed style attributes into a MI_STYLE type text string. It supports "strict" and non-geometry-bound modes.

I'll upload it to the common repository as soon as this will accept Python based transformers.

 

mapinfostyleencoder.zip
-- Cheers, Lars I.

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