Fwd: [gislist] Mxp -> map conversion

[Till Adams]

Dear all,

there is a tool which converts axl to mapfiles written by Primin Kelber 
(hello ;-)) who also was on the MUM this year. I'm not sure about the 
license ...??

Greets, Till


>> Hi,
> 
> 
> Posting this message (from the gislist) to the MapServer and GeoTools  
> mailing lists as I think there may be interest within these  communities 
> for this tool. An earlier post a couple of months ago  didn't generate a 
> single reply, so I may be wrong :-)
> 
>> I've developed a tool to export an MXD to an AXL (ArcIMS)
>> configuration file. It works on both ArcMap 8 and 9 and does
>> conversions of all (risky statement...) the symbology of ArcMap (both
>> for vector and raster & truetype symbols on most supported data
>> formats).
>>
>> I have tried to get someone interested in developing an XSL
>> transformation of these AXL files into MapServer map files (or  SLD), 
>> but no
>> one reacted unfortunately and I do not have the MapServer knowledge
>> required nor the time to develop these. However, if someone creates
>> such XSL (even starting with something fairly basic) I would be very
>> happy to incorporate the functionality as one of the export formats
>> of the tool.
>>
>> You can find the tool in the ArcScripts section on the
>> support.esri.com website . The tool's name is MXD2AXL
>> Greetings,
>> Jeroen
>>
>> On 26 Sep 2005, at 16:46, Ed Dowding wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks, Jeff, for the useful reply.
>>>
>>> Would anyone be able to help with the conversion? I have just one  file
>>> (about 450k) that needs converting from mxd to .map.
>>>
>>> I have no idea if this is a lengthy process or not, but if it is
>>> obviously
>>> there will be remuneration.
>>>
>>> Please contact me off list if you're interested.
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>>
>>> Ed.
>>>
>>>
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gislist-bounces at lists.geocomm.com
>>> [mailto:gislist-bounces at lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
>>> Sent: 26 September 2005 13:50
>>> To: gislist at lists.thinkburst.com
>>> Subject: Re: [gislist] Mxp -> map conversion
>>>
>>> Amein! is the mxd-to-map utility, Avein! is the apr-to-map
>>> utility...if
>>> you use ArcGIS 9 you should be able to use Amein! (same URL as you
>>> stated).
>>>
>>> Another good apr-to-mxd utility is Gix (http://gix.sourceforge.net/),
>>> but the mxd-to-map utility is in development (according to the
>>> website).
>>>
>>> Quantum GIS (QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/) does have an 'Export as
>>> MapServer mapfile) option, but the last time i tried it it was
>>> still not
>>> fully functional.
>>>
>>> jeff
>>>
>>> Ed Dowding wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi ~
>>>>
>>>> I'm using MapServer (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) on a project,
>>>> and need
>>>> to show style data with the information from an .mxp file.
>>>>
>>>> Alas mapserver doesn't support this format.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help?
>>>>
>>>> Would it be possible either to:
>>>>
>>>> o Convert the mxd to a map file using ArcView and Avein!
>>>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avein/)
>>>>
>>>> o Give us some kind of human-readable version of the mxd file so
>>>> we can
>>>> code the map file ourselves
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, gislist,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jeff McKenna
>>> DM Solutions Group Inc.
>>> http://www.dmsolutions.ca
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________

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Mit freundlichen Grüssen aus Bonn,

Till Adams

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