# MapInfo Interchange Format

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| name = MapInfo Interchange Format
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| extension = .mif
| mime = 
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| genre = [GIS](/source/GIS)
| containerfor = 
| containedby = 
| owner = [MapInfo](/source/MapInfo_Corporation)
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'''MapInfo Interchange Format''' is a map and database exporting/importing file format of
[MapInfo](/source/MapInfo_Professional) software product. The MIF-file filename usually ends with ''.mif''-suffix.
MIF-files usual have a related MID-file. The filename of a MID-file usually ends
with ''.mid''-suffix. If MID-file not exist, on import, [MapInfo](/source/MapInfo_Professional) stores empty data to every data columns of created "[Mapinfo Table](/source/MapInfo_TAB_format)".

MIF-file contains Block with the description of attributive Data-columns and Blocks that stores Geomentry Objects.

MID-file is [CSV](/source/Comma-separated_values)-like format to store the attributive Data. Each line in MID-file is related with the same order Geometry Block (Geometry Object) in MIF-file.

==See also==
*[MapInfo TAB format](/source/MapInfo_TAB_format)

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060909054240/http://resource.mapinfo.com/static/files/document/1074660800077/interchange_file.pdf MapInfo Data Interchange Format]

Category:GIS file formats

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