ogr2ogr MIF recogntion.

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the output of a conversion program generates mif/mid files of point geometry multibeam data wish to convert to shapefile.

attempting to convert mif/mid point geometry, WGS84 DDcoordinate system to shapefile format.

using this comad string, ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" mydata.shp mydata.mif

I get this error msg error 6: data keyword not found in mydata.mif file may be corrupt.

failure: unable to open data source with the following drivers. (list of drivers)

here's the mif headder, Version 3 Delimiter "," INDEX 3 Coordsys Earth Projection 1,104 Columns 14

Lon Decimal (11,6) Lat Decimal (10,6) Dep Decimal(7,1) Src_ID CHAR(8) Snd_datum CHAR(5) HYSAS_Src_ID CHAR(7) Eval Smallint Class CHAR(1) Adj CHAR(1) Surv CHAR(1) Trk CHAR(1) WG84 CHAR(1) Updated DATE Point_Type CHAR(1) Data Point -113.793621 20.506910

SYMBOL (49,16711680,6)

(Note indentation of keywords data, point, and symbol

Note: these mif/mid files ae accepted by FME workbench and mapinfo as working files.