View MapInfo files in your browser
MapInfo's tables, as councils, surveys and mapping agencies still hand them out. Open a TAB with its DAT, MAP and ID, or a MIF with its MID, right here on a map. The files never leave your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your table opens on a map in MapInfo's own colors, its pens, brushes and symbols, from the system it names.
- MapInfo's pens, brushes and symbols
- Every object in a list • Search its fields
- Click an object for its row • Measure distances
- Export • PNG, GeoJSON, GPX, KML and CSV
About MapInfo
MapInfo Corporation of Troy, New York, made MapInfo, the desktop GIS of many councils and businesses since the 1990s, and its tables are still handed out beside shapefiles, by Britain's Ordnance Survey among others. MapInfo Pro is Precisely's now, with a free MapInfo Pro Viewer for Windows.
A native table is four files of one name: the .tab says what its columns are and its coordinate system, the .dat holds its rows, the .map its objects, regions, lines, points and text with their styles, and the .id where each row's object is. A MIF is the same table as text, its objects in the .mif and its rows in the .mid.
Drop the files together, or the ZIP they came in, and Filepeek draws the table over OpenStreetMap in its own colors, from the projection and datum it names. Click an object for its row, search the fields, and save the features as GeoJSON, KML, GPX or CSV, or the view as PNG.
MapInfo Interchange Format and MapInfo TAB
.mif • .tab
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- MapInfo Corporation, now Precisely
- Released
- Early 1990s
Inside the file
- Holds
- Regions, lines, points and text
- Styles
- Pens, brushes and symbols
- Beside it
- DAT, MAP and ID, or a MID
- System
- MapInfo's CoordSys
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens MapInfo tables on a map in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers download them or show a MIF as text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open MapInfo
- WindowsMapInfo Pro • its free Viewer • QGIS
- MacQGIS
- iPhone and iPadNo app built in opens it
- AndroidNo app built in opens it
Questions
How do I open a TAB file?
Drop the .tab with the files of its name, the .dat, .map and .id, or the ZIP they came in, on this page. It opens on a map with every row listed beside it.
Why does it ask for the other files?
A TAB only describes its table: the objects are in the .map, found through the .id, and the rows in the .dat. Open them together, and a MIF with its .mid.
Can I open MapInfo files without MapInfo?
Yes. Filepeek reads them in your browser, Precisely's free MapInfo Pro Viewer opens them on Windows, and QGIS on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Which TAB files open?
Native tables and tables over a dBase file. A raster table, which places a picture, a seamless table and a view only point at other files, so open those instead.
Is it the same MIF as FrameMaker's?
No. Adobe FrameMaker's Maker Interchange Format is named .mif too, and opens here as text.