Fwd: [gislist] Mxp -> map conversion

[Jeroen Ticheler]

> Hi,

Posting this message (from the gislist) to the MapServer and GeoTools  
mailing lists as I think there may be interest within these  
communities for this tool. An earlier post a couple of months ago  
didn't generate a single reply, so I may be wrong :-)

> I've developed a tool to export an MXD to an AXL (ArcIMS)
> configuration file. It works on both ArcMap 8 and 9 and does
> conversions of all (risky statement...) the symbology of ArcMap (both
> for vector and raster & truetype symbols on most supported data
> formats).
>
> I have tried to get someone interested in developing an XSL
> transformation of these AXL files into MapServer map files (or  
> SLD), but no
> one reacted unfortunately and I do not have the MapServer knowledge
> required nor the time to develop these. However, if someone creates
> such XSL (even starting with something fairly basic) I would be very
> happy to incorporate the functionality as one of the export formats
> of the tool.
>
> You can find the tool in the ArcScripts section on the
> support.esri.com website . The tool's name is MXD2AXL
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>
> On 26 Sep 2005, at 16:46, Ed Dowding wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks, Jeff, for the useful reply.
>>
>> Would anyone be able to help with the conversion? I have just one  
>> file
>> (about 450k) that needs converting from mxd to .map.
>>
>> I have no idea if this is a lengthy process or not, but if it is
>> obviously
>> there will be remuneration.
>>
>> Please contact me off list if you're interested.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>>
>> Ed.
>>
>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gislist-bounces at lists.geocomm.com
>> [mailto:gislist-bounces at lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Jeff McKenna
>> Sent: 26 September 2005 13:50
>> To: gislist at lists.thinkburst.com
>> Subject: Re: [gislist] Mxp -> map conversion
>>
>> Amein! is the mxd-to-map utility, Avein! is the apr-to-map
>> utility...if
>> you use ArcGIS 9 you should be able to use Amein! (same URL as you
>> stated).
>>
>> Another good apr-to-mxd utility is Gix (http://gix.sourceforge.net/),
>> but the mxd-to-map utility is in development (according to the
>> website).
>>
>> Quantum GIS (QGIS, http://www.qgis.org/) does have an 'Export as
>> MapServer mapfile) option, but the last time i tried it it was
>> still not
>> fully functional.
>>
>> jeff
>>
>> Ed Dowding wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi ~
>>>
>>> I'm using MapServer (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/) on a project,
>>> and need
>>> to show style data with the information from an .mxp file.
>>>
>>> Alas mapserver doesn't support this format.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help?
>>>
>>> Would it be possible either to:
>>>
>>> o Convert the mxd to a map file using ArcView and Avein!
>>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/avein/)
>>>
>>> o Give us some kind of human-readable version of the mxd file so
>>> we can
>>> code the map file ourselves
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, gislist,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jeff McKenna
>> DM Solutions Group Inc.
>> http://www.dmsolutions.ca
>>
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