Pitney Bowes MapMarker USA - Manual (Page 72)

Exporting to Shapefiles
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MapMarker checks for write permission on the directory that you are exporting the Shapefile to. If
write permission is verified, the process continues. You will receive a message if you do not
select a valid file name, or if the directory does not have write permission, or the Shapefile
already exists.
MapMarker also checks whether the opened file is a DBF file. If the input is a DBF file, the export
file name will be named with a _out suffix. For example, if the input file was Customer.dbf the
export file name will be Customer_out.shp.
After specifying the SHP file name, click Save.
5. In the Export to ESRI Shapefile dialog, do one of the following:
a. If the table in not mappable or does not contain points, Use X/Y Columns will be selected.
For TAB files, Long (X) and Lat (Y) are initially populated with the appropriate column names
as determined from table metadata. If the TAB file metadata does not contain this
information, MapMarker will look for typical names for coordinate columns and populate
those column names into the Long (X) and Lat (Y) fields. If no typical names are found (or if
you want to change the Long (X) and Lat (Y) column names), you can select columns from
the drop-down lists.
CSV, TXT, or DBF files do not contain metadata.