.tab file extension
- .tab
- MapInfo table structure file.
A .tab file is a Mapinfo table structure file. This is an ASCII text file, and is part of a set of files (.dat, .id, .ind, .map), all of which are a MapInfo proprietary format.
For more information see:
- http://members.aol.com/MapToolsCompany/tabdef.txt - MapInfo TAB file structure. Copyright 2000, so may not be accurate for current versions of MapInfo.
- http://mitab.maptools.org/ - Open Source library for reading and writing .tab and .mid/.mif files.
- http://everything.explained.at/MapInfo_TAB_format - MapInfo TAB format explained.
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