Please keep us posted.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 January 2011 14:49, Stephan Holl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephan.holl@intevation.de">stephan.holl@intevation.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello Barry,<br>
<br>
Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>>, [20110128 - 11:47:10]<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:05 AM, George Silva<br>
> <<a href="mailto:georger.silva@gmail.com">georger.silva@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > The Mxd format is more complex then just filenames. As mentioned,<br>
> > there are styling issues, graphics, projections and custom objects<br>
> > stored to it.<br>
> ><br>
> > ArcGIS uses a variety of Properties (Key Value pairs) and saves<br>
> > them to each MXD also. Custom extensions, labelling, ah, my head is<br>
> > hurting already.<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm not sure if this is such an easy task.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, I was vainly hoping to find something akin to an XML tag, or<br>
> some other obvious marker at the point of listing the layer sources.<br>
> No such luck!<br>
<br>
</div></div>Right. We will see what ArcPy is able to do with mxd-files in order to<br>
create an translator. I will let you know in more details later when<br>
the project got started.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Stephan<br>
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