On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Noli Sicad <[email protected]> wrote: > No. There is no way you can convert ArcGIS project file (*.mxd) to > QGIS with or without ArcPy. > > You just have to add vector layers in QGIS project.
Looks like a proprietary binary format: http://viswaug.wordpress.com/2009/07/18/deployment-hassles-with-the-black-box-mxd-file-format/ If you have ESRI products then it might be possible to write a simple Qgis project file containing the layers for all OGR and GDAL layers (not ESRI geodatabases, of course) but that would require some Arc programming. WIthout ESRI products you are stuck unless someone can reverse-engineer the mxd file format, or if the paths to things like shapefiles and geoTiffs are stored in plain text within the file. Could you do this: Start ArcGIS, load one shapefile, save the MXD. Add another shapefile, save as a new MXD. Load a geoTiff. Save as a new MXD. Put those MXD files somewhere we can download them... I'd like to see how obfuscated this format really is. Qgis project files are of course saved in an open XML format. Barry _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
