The SLYR tool allows them to be directly opened within QGIS and converted to QGIS spatial bookmark formats.Īll formats are proprietary, ESRI specific binary formats.
“.mxd”, “.mxt” and “.pmf” documents: These map document files contain groups of layers, their styles, and print layouts for exporting the layers.SLYR adds direct support for LYR files within QGIS, and adds tools for automated batch conversion of LYR to QLR.
Within QGIS, the “QLR” file format offers an equivalent functionality. LYR files can be added to an ArcMap document to automatically load and style data in a single step. “.lyr” files: These files contain both a layer’s definition (including the file or database path to the layer’s source data) and the associated symbology and layer settings to apply to that layer.style marker, line, and fill symbols, color palettes, color ramps, text format, label settings and area and line patches to QGIS style databases “.style” databases: These database files store libraries of ESRI symbols (markers, lines, and fills), alongside other associated style objects such as color palettes, color ramps, legend presets, and text formats.The conversion tool targets numerous ESRI specific binary file formats, and is designed to allow seamless use of these files within the QGIS desktop application: This page describes our SLYR conversion tool and how you can purchase SLYR today! Table of Contents
The good news: North Road have been conducting extensive research and development, and are pleased to offer a product which allows use of these previously restricted formats within the open-source software environment! This leaves users with no means of utilising these official pre-defined styles in non-ESRI tools. Unfortunately, ESRI software is often prohibitively expensive, yet organisations cannot completely transition to alternative software packages due to their dependence on accessing their pre-existing work.įurthermore, many providers of spatial data only include ESRI specific layer formatting files with their data supplies. This is particularly an issue with the ESRI software suite, where organisations may have hundreds (or thousands!) of existing map documents and layer styles which they currently cannot utilise outside of the ESRI software ecosystem. While the use of open-source software is widely accepted and respected within the geospatial industry, organisations are often restricted in their ability to completely embrace these powerful new tools due to the need to utilise existing projects and data from proprietary software vendors.
stylx symbol libraries to and from QGIS symbol libraries ( coming December 2021)
Conversion of page layouts to QGIS print layouts with full support for multi-map page layouts using multiple data frames.Support for converting layer joins and relations.Support for converting vector and raster layers, with a very accurate match to the original ArcMap appearance.Support for automatically converting MXD, MXT and PMF documents to QGIS projects, including:.North Road’s “SLYR” tool offers is the complete ArcMap to QGIS compatibility suite.