What is a .MIF file?
MIF is MapInfo’s text interchange format for moving map data between systems.
- Did you know
- MIF is the plain-text export MapInfo uses to share data with other GIS tools.
- A MIF file rarely travels alone - its companion .mid file holds the attribute data in comma-separated rows, one per object in the same order.
- MapInfo Interchange Format was created so MapInfo data could be exported as readable text and re-imported into other geographic information systems.
- What Analyser reads
- Inspect geospatial and GIS files without a map: TopoJSON, OpenStreetMap XML, Esri Shapefile siblings (SHP/SHX/DBF/PRJ/CPG), world files, GML, NMEA GPS logs, IGC flight logs, MapInfo TAB/MIF, GDAL VRT, PMTiles, DTED terrain, Esri ASCII grids and SRTM .hgt - surfacing CRS/EPSG, feature/record counts, bounding boxes and elevation ranges. GRIB/NetCDF/GeoPackage/MBTiles/MrSID/ECW identified.
- Depth of analysis
- .MIF is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .MIF file
- Drag a .MIF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.