Converting MXD to QGIS Project File

On Wednesday, Allan Maungu announced MXD2QGS, a converter that exports layers from an Arcmap 10 document into a Quantum GIS project file. The tool is built as an ArcToolbox and can be downloaded from the blog.

I’d be very interested to hear whether this tool works for you.

5 comments

Ando said: 2011-05-2923:44

Its a cool idea and it works perfectly for shapefiles on my local system. I also have an SDE database with my data stored using PostGIS geometries, as expected that didn’t work. That’s unfortunate as our ArcGIS and QGIS users pull data from that same DB, it would have been great to find a tool which could convert our ArcMap mxds to qgis project files.

Still great little script!
Giovanni said: 2011-05-3010:14

But you can connect to SDE with QGIS, see here:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/240/is-it-possible-to-connect-to-arcsde-using-quantumgis
Mohammad said: 2011-12-2616:11

Hi.This posts removed from blogspot…
” http://mapengines.blogspot.com/2011/05/exporting-current-arcmap-document.html ” Link not found…
” http://geoscripting.blogspot.com/2011/05/exporting-current-arcmap-document.html ” Link not found…
Please send “MXD2QGS” tool as an ArcToolbox to my email.Thanks.
- underdark said: 2011-12-2616:36
  
  Sorry, I don’t have it.
- Aike said: 2012-02-2212:05
  
  See: https://sites.google.com/site/lumtegis/files/Mxd2Qgs.zip
  
  or
  
  http://spatialarts.blogspot.com/2011/05/exporting-current-arcmap-document.html
  
  regards Aike