On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Martijn van Exel escribió: >> Someone asked me for an ESRI MXD file for OSM data. Does such a thing >> exist? > > Short answer: no. > >> Does the question even make sense? I'm not very good at ESRI lingo, >> but apparently it's some kind of stylesheet. > > Long answer: a .mxd file is a "project" file. It's nothing but a bunch of > links to data files (or database connections, or WMS/WFS links), and > the "stylesheets" applied to each one, plus the layering order, plus > (optionally) VB scripts embedded in the project file. >
VB Scripts? Are you kidding me? Wow. I guess the stylesheets is what they're after. Are those in a separate file or is it all just one blob of VBScript and XML and whatnot? Martijn > > A .mxd file is not data. And OSM is All About The Data(tm). > > -- > ---------------------------------- > Iván Sánchez Ortega <[email protected]> > > http://ivan.sanchezortega.es > Proudly running Debian Linux with 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 kernel, KDE 3.5.10, and > PHP 5.2.11-2 generating this signature. > Uptime: 00:22:02 up 7 days, 18:17, 1 user, load average: 1.62, 1.17, 0.81 Time to get some sleep. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
