I wasn't aware that the Pushpin Tool imported mif/mid.

We use microsoft's Spatial Data Importer and I have modified versions of that for doing various things, but it has involved a lot of custom programming over the years.

I did hear about a tool from Visimation recently that might be what you need,
http://www.shapesource.com/scripts/p...?idCategory=47

hope this helps,
Eric

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