[Qgis-developer] MXD

[jude mwenda]

Please keep us posted.

On 28 January 2011 14:49, Stephan Holl <stephan.holl at intevation.de> wrote:

> Hello Barry,
>
> Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>, [20110128 - 11:47:10]
>
> > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:05 AM, George Silva
> > <georger.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The Mxd format is more complex then just filenames. As mentioned,
> > > there are styling issues, graphics, projections and custom objects
> > > stored to it.
> > >
> > > ArcGIS uses a variety of Properties (Key Value pairs) and saves
> > > them to each MXD also. Custom extensions, labelling, ah, my head is
> > > hurting already.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure if this is such an easy task.
> >
> >  Yeah, I was vainly hoping to find something akin to an XML tag, or
> > some other obvious marker at the point of listing the layer sources.
> > No such luck!
>
> Right. We will see what ArcPy is able to do with mxd-files in order to
> create an translator. I will let you know in more details later when
> the project got started.
>
> Cheers
>
>        Stephan
>
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