mxd on Qgis

[gustavocanale]

Hi.
Could anybody tell me what is the most straightforward way to open mxd files on Qgis?
I am a Mac user, and I don't have arcGIS at the moment. I know about bootcamp and parallel but I am also working on that. Is that a way to do it using only OS X-based softwares?
Cheers
Gustavo
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[Gary Sherman-3]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi.
> Could anybody tell me what is the most straightforward way to open mxd files
> on Qgis?
An mxd file is a binary closed format. QGIS is unable to open mxd files.

-gary

> I am a Mac user, and I don't have arcGIS at the moment. I know about
> bootcamp and parallel but I am also working on that. Is that a way to do it
> using only OS X-based softwares?
> Cheers
> Gustavo
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[Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V.]

hi,

as gary wrote mxd is a closed binary format, but don't forget: a
mxd-file only stores the map-projekt (which laysrs should be on the map
and how to display them by colour, linestrength, ...). U can easily
create a similar projekt in QGIS using the same layers and layout like
the author of the mxd-file and save it in a qgis-project-file.

Marco

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> Hi.
> Could anybody tell me what is the most straightforward way to open mxd
> files on Qgis?
> I am a Mac user, and I don't have arcGIS at the moment. I know about
> bootcamp and parallel but I am also working on that. Is that a way to do
> it using only OS X-based softwares?
> Cheers
> Gustavo
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