<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">It looks like this is just a formatting file .....<div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 16px; "><strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">LYR: Layer File</strong> <p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 16px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">A .lyr file is directly readable only by ArcGIS software and other newer software applications. This file does not contain actual geographic data, but rather contains specifications for the presentation of other datasets. Such specifications include color shading, naming, label properties (font, color, placements, etc.). Such presentation properties are usually time consuming to create, so a .lyr file allows these settings to be saved and shared. In order to use a .lyr file, you must also have a seperate data file with the same prefix name saved in the same filespace.</p><div><br></div><div>So the other shape files etc should have the stuff you really need to use the data in GRASS</div><div><br></div><div>Stu</div><div><br></div></span><div><div>On May 9, 2011, at 6:56 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> I've a problem that I hope folks here can help me solve. A client sent me<br>a dvd with data from their ArcGIS system, but some files are in the<br>proprietary .lyr format and some of the .shp files are empty. This is in two<br>of seven subdirectories. The data are proprietary and company confidential.<br><br> Is there any tool other than ArcGIS that can extract usable data from a<br>.lyr layer file?<br><br> The empty files will need to be resent to me.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Rich<br>_______________________________________________<br>grass-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>