[Mapserver-users] *.lyr and *.sym

[Eric Hillmuth]

Sven;

 The *.lyr file is one way ArcGIS (the newer versions of ArcInfo and 
ArcView) stores layer definitions like color, line weight etc. 
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any way to read these files besides using 
ArcGIS products. I think these files are stored in Microsoft's OLE 2 
Compound Document format but I'm not sure.

Eric

Sven Jacobi wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I want to generate legends dynamically and therefor I need the *.sym 
>files for certain types, I guess (colors with certain symbols on it).
>Now I've got data with a *.lyr file which I can not read. I think it
>is a file generated by ArcView or ArcInfo but I don't know how to open
>that file, so that I can convert it to make it accessible from Mapserver. 
>I think that this file is comparable with the sym file from MapServer.
>
>Does anybody has experience with that?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sven
>
>
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