[Qgis-user] ArcGIS Layer File

[Ross Easterling]

Thanks Carol! 

I've downloaded a set of symbols that I can use (SVG images) and I'm sure that with some help from the list I can get them installed correctly (SVG path question).

SO, once I get there.  Then, how do I make the text referent "oil well" (as an example) as listed in the Attribute Table connect to the appropriate SVG file to bring that symbol in?  

Can I put a path in an attribute table?





On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:34 AM, Carol Kraemer <cakraemer at northrivergeographic.com> wrote:
 
Ross,

You will need to create custom symbols either by using the QGIS symbols or by going through some steps to create custom symbols using ArcGIS symbology to bring it into QGIS. I wrote a blog post on this not too long ago that may help you decide what you would prefer to do in your case.

http://www.northrivergeographic.com/archives/qgis-want-symbols-youve-got

Hope it helps!
-Carol





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Carol Kraemer
North River Geographic Systems, Inc
http://www.northrivergeographic.com
404.431.0125cakraemer at northrivergeographic.com


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Ross Easterling <rosseast2004 at yahoo.com> wrote:

ArcGIS Layer File
> 
>I’ve been trying to get the symbology of an oil and gas well shapfile that I
downloaded from a State Oil and Gas Division into my map.  The wells all show up as dots in my map, but
the convention for oil and gas symbols goes beyond dots.  
> 
>The shape file that I downloaded has a ArcGIS Layer file (*.lyr).  Can QGIS utilize a ArcGIS Layer file or is
it proprietary?  Is there a way the
person who created that ArcGIS layer file save it as something QGIS  could open?
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