MapQonverter

The MapQonverter converts an ArcMap Project to a QGIS Project. The script is inspired by Mxd2Qgs from Allan Maungu.

System Requirements: at least ArcMap 10.4. While ArcMap 10.7 is fully tested

Installation

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/WhereGroup/mapqonverter.git

# Download Python package comtypes
pip install comtypes==1.1.7

⚠️ If you have more than one python version on your pc, be sure to install comtypes to the python version used by ArcMap - for example: C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.7

• Add toolbox "Mapqonverter.tbx" to ArcMap
• Start script "ArcMap Project to QGIS project"
• Choose filename and directory for QGIS-File
• Export
• Smile

Functionality

The following can be converted:

Legend

The legend, including Grouplayer and nested structures.

• Because the structure is build from the LongName, two layers can't have the same name and be direct neighbours, sad.

DataFrames

• Dataframes will be exported as Grouplayers.

Rasterlayer

• Stretched
• RGB Composite
• Color-Map

Featurelayer

• Marker
  • Simple-Marker
  • Character-Marker
• Lines
  • Hash-Lines
  • Marker-Lines
  • Simple-Lines
  • Cartographic-Lines
• Fills
  • Gradient-Fill
    • RadialFill is not yet supported.
  • Line-Fill
  • Marker-Fill
  • Random-Fill
  • Simple-Fill
  • Outlines -> QGIS Rand (Simple, Marker, Hashed)
• Multi-Layer-Symbols
• Unique-Values
• Graduated-Colors / Graduated–Symbols

WMS-Layer

GeoDataBase-Annotation – Layer

Database-Layer

• Just Postgresql is fully tested

Labels

• Simple Labels are supported, for example city-/country-names. Complex logical expressions are hardly translatable from VBScript (ArcMap) zur QGIS Expressions Engine.

Layout

• The Layout will be safed as "Imported Layout"
  • Basic NorthArrow will be exported
  • Legend
  • Polygone, Ellipses, Line-, and PolyLine-Elements
  • ScaleBars
  • TextElements
  • Pictures

Logging

• A Logfile is generated after the Export in the Folder "logs"

Packages

comtypes