[Mapserver-users] ArcView 8.2 for preparing mapserver maps

[Till Adams]

Dear Markus,

I'm sorry, but I have "bad" news for you:

The mxd-format is binary and not readable like the old *.apr from AV3.x 
was. The *.lyr is no more than a "small project", storitng the datapath 
and some more like legend, etc.

If I may give you an advice: Of course Esri will hurry up people to 
switch to 8.2 - because there's a lot moorem oney to make, at least with 
the update-service you HAVE to pay every year, otherwise you don't get 
any updates - and you have to pay them after, if you missed pay it for a 
year or two and then want to update.

My experience in this case is, that most people remain using AV3.x - 
some of our customers change one or two licences and keep the rest as it 
is, because ArcGIS 8.x for most users is abssolutely overloadad with 
functionality....

We can discuss more on this topic outside the list if you like, as I 
guess it does not concern the main target from this list ;-)



m.spring at gmx.de schrieb:
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> Hi list,
> 
> a lot of us are using ArcView 3 as desktop gis, and there are at least
> two solutions to convert its layer definitions into a mapfile.
> 
> Now ESRI tries to urge people to switch to 8.2 - I got a demo version
> for this purpose. 
> 
> What I could not find out when playing with the demo is:
> 
> *Is there a human readable format for the map or layer definition as
> the old .apr/.odb was?*
> 
> .mxd and .lyr are OLE containers which have binary structures inside,
> and I did not find any documentation about these.
> 
> I would glad to get any information about this as it will influence
> very much my decision to upgrade or not.
> 
> Markus
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