[Qgis-user] ESRIs ArcGIS lyr-files

[George Silva]

Oh also, .lyr is a proprietary binary format. It's not so easy to decode it
(even without ESRI permission) :P

George

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:30 AM, George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com>wrote:

> There is a on-going effort for this.
>
> Check carto at lists.osgeo.org and the Carto project. We are still in early
> dvelopment.
>
> George
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Milena Nowotarska <do.milenki at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2010/4/15 Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com>:
>> >> Is there any tool to convert ESRIs lyr-files readable in QGIS? Or do
>> >> ArcGIS have any other format-system that you can use in QGIS? For
>> >> instance shp-files can get very stranges coulors or symbols if you
>> >> open them in QGIS.
>> >
>> > That's simply because shapefiles don't store symbology themselves. If
>> > you want your layers to look like they do in ArcGIS, you have to
>> > adjust the symbology of your layers (you can also create a style for
>> > for your layers so that they always look the same when you load them).
>> > This stuff is all available in the QGIS manual here:
>> > http://qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html
>> >
>> > Carson
>> >
>>
>> I hope that I live these days, when every GIS can generate and read
>> SLD so we could move not only the data but also the *cartography* :)
>>
>> Milena
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