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 <[email protected]>wrote: > There is a on-going effort for this. > > Check [email protected] and the Carto project. We are still in early > dvelopment. > > George > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Milena Nowotarska > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 2010/4/15 Carson Farmer <[email protected]>: >> >> 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 >> -- >> Milena Nowotarska >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Milena_Nowotarska >> http://quantum-gis.pl/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > > > -- > George R. C. Silva > > Desenvolvimento em GIS > http://blog.geoprocessamento.net > -- George R. C. Silva Desenvolvimento em GIS http://blog.geoprocessamento.net
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