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MapInfo TAB

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.tab · application/x-mapinfo-tab

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Example TAB export (central Moscow, 1x0.5 km) — Example: central Moscow, ~1×0.5 km, medium detail

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🌎MapInfo Professional 🌎MapInfo Pro 🌎QGIS 💻FME 💻Global Mapper

Format specifications

Proprietary format
2D only
Lossless (no quality loss)
Stores feature attributes
Output: 4 files in archive
MapInfo native .tab (ZIP with 4 component files: .tab/.dat/.map/.id). Direct open in MapInfo Pro, GDAL/OGR.

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format

MapInfo TAB — Format Behind Russian Cadastre and Municipal GIS: Internals, MITAB and OSM Export

MapInfo TAB since 1990: 4-5 files (.tab/.dat/.map/.id), Precisely's proprietary spec, reverse-engineering via Frank Warm