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MapInfo MIF/MID

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.mif · application/x-mapinfo-mif

MIF/MID is het op tekst gebaseerde uitwisselingsformaat voor MapInfo Professional. Bestandsparen (.mif + .mid) bevatten respectievelijk geometrie en attributen. Een universeel formaat voor gegevensuitwisseling tussen GIS-systemen.

MIF nu exporteren ✨ Open bèta — gratis, zonder limieten

Belangrijkste functies

✓Tekstgebaseerd formaat (leesbaar)

✓Afzonderlijke lagen

✓Objectkenmerken

✓Ondersteuning voor projecties

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

Over het MIF-formaat

MIF/MID is MapInfo's text interchange format: geometry and column definitions live in the .mif file, and the attribute values themselves in the .mid, line by line. The format is documented and readable in an ordinary text editor, which is why it has been used for decades as a neutral go-between for GIS: MapInfo Pro, QGIS, Global Mapper and FME read it without plugins.

In Russia MIF/MID is still found in municipal and cadastral workflows: development, boundary and road network layers are accepted and issued in it. Exporting OSM into this format saves you from digitizing the base by hand — the data arrives right away in the shape the receiving side opens natively.

The output is a ZIP archive: a pair of .mif and .mid files per layer plus a README.txt naming the coordinate system. The pairs must be kept together: without the .mid the layer opens with no attributes. Coordinates are in WGS84 (EPSG:4326) by default, and another projection can be chosen at export time. The files are built by the ogr2ogr utility in MapInfo File mode with an explicit FORMAT=MIF, and if a layer fails to convert it is honestly marked as failed — the service does not slip you a binary TAB under a .mif name.

Welk programma opent MIF-bestanden

De volgende programma's en toepassingen kunnen MapInfo MIF/MID-bestanden (.mif) die uit OSM2CDR zijn geëxporteerd openen, bewerken en verwerken:

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

Format specifications

Open standard
2D only
Lossless (no quality loss)
Stores feature attributes
Output: 2 files in archive
MapInfo Interchange Format (.mif + .mid in ZIP). Documented text-based format. Opens in MapInfo Pro, QGIS.

Wie gebruikt MIF-kaarten

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GIS-gegevensuitwisseling

A neutral text go-between for passing layers between MapInfo, QGIS, Global Mapper and FME.

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MapInfo Professional

MapInfo Pro's own interchange format: the .mif + .mid pair opens without converters and can be re-saved as TAB.

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Kadasterkaarten

A base for cadastral materials: boundaries, development and driveways with OSM attributes in the form acceptance expects.

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Stedenbouwkundige planning

A development and street network layer for urban planning schemes and layout projects.

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Gemeentelijk beheer

Data exchange with municipal services, where MIF/MID remains the accepted transfer format.

MIF exporteren

Gebied selecteren

Teken een rechthoek of polygoon op de interactieve kaart op osm2cdr.ru

MIF kiezen

Selecteer MapInfo MIF/MID uit de lijst van 127 beschikbare exportformaten

Exporteren

Klik op Exporteren en ontvang uw .mif-bestand binnen 1-5 minuten

Downloaden

Download het gerede MIF-bestand en open het in MapInfo Professional

Openen na de export

MapInfo Pro — File -> Open, file type "MapInfo Interchange (*.mif)"; the program picks up the paired .mid itself and offers to save the layer as a native TAB for further work.
QGIS (free) — Layer -> Add Vector Layer -> pick the .mif. From there the layer can be styled and re-saved to SHP, GeoPackage or any other format.
ogr2ogr (GDAL) — a one-off conversion without a GUI: ogr2ogr -f GPKG out.gpkg roads.mif builds the layer into a GeoPackage.
Global Mapper or FME — if the MIF/MID has to be poured into someone else's data exchange pipeline with reprojection and field renaming.
Before sending it to the client — unpack the whole archive: the .mif + .mid pair must sit in one folder, otherwise the attributes are lost.

Populaire kaarten in MIF

Free

Ontvang MapInfo MIF/MID-kaartexports

Download professionele MIF-kaarten van OpenStreetMap. Directe generatie, elk gebied.

Gratis / export

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Veelgestelde vragen

Wat is het verschil tussen MIF en TAB? ▼

Kan ik MIF openen in QGIS? ▼

What is inside the downloaded archive? ▼

Which coordinate system does the data arrive in? ▼

Why not deliver a native TAB instead of MIF? ▼

Verwante formaten

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