- Extension
- .tab
- .gml
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- GIS
- GIS
- Developer
- Precisely
- Galdos Systems
- Description
- A MapInfo TAB dataset describes geographic features and their attributes. Its text .tab header refers to companion .dat, .map and .id files, which must be kept together. It is not tab-separated text (TSV).
- Geography data format created by Galdos Systems and supported by the Open Geospatial Consortium; used by geographers for storing geographical data in a standard interchangeable format.
- MIME Type
- application/x-mapinfo
- application/gml+xml