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1 .. index:: features, functionality, configuration, runtime-parameter, commandline
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3 -------------
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4 Functionality
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5 -------------
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7 The MXD2map converter works as a commandline tool to transform maps from the
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8 proprietary ArcGIS file format "MXD" to a MapServer configuration file.
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10 To transform an ArcGIS mxd file to a MapServer configuration file the mxd file
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11 must have a valid and available data source and must not fit the
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12 :ref:`restriction-label` described in the appropriate section.
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14 .. image:: ../funktionsweise/funktionsweise-MXD-konverter.png
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15 :align: center
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16 :alt: MXD2map-Schema
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17 :width: 500px
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19 .. _howtouse-label:
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21 How to use
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22 ----------
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24 The converter is started via the commandline running the command::
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26 $java -jar mxd2map.jar
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28 The converter can be configured in two ways:
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30 1. The converter.properties file (see converter.properties.sample)
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31 2. via commandline arguments
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33 The converter.properties.sample file::
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36 # Java properties file for the MXD Converter Tool.
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37 mxd = \\full\\path\\to\\mxd-file
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38 map = \\full\\path\\to\\map-file
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39 map-template = \\full\\path\\to\\mapfile-template
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41 Make sure you mask backslahes with an additional backslash.
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43 Both take a parameter for the path to the mxd file, the outputfile and a mapfile
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44 template for initial mapfile config. Commandline parameters have a higher
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45 priority than the properties file.
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47 The available parameters on the commandline are::
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49 -m or --mxd The mxd file to convert.
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51 -a or --map The path to the output file. Should end with ".map".
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53 -t or --template The template to use for an initial mapfile
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54 configuration.
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56 To have the full functionality for ArcGIS map conversion it is necessary to have
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57 the ESRI fonts available. ArcGIS products install these fonts to the default
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58 windows font folder ``c:\\windows\\fonts``. To make them available for the converter
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59 there has to be a MapServer font set (see
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60 http://mapserver.org/mapfile/fontset.html). The MXD2map converter comes with an
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61 initial fontset containing all relevant ESRI fonts and the free font FreeSans.
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62 The font set file named fonts.txt can be edited and further fonts can be added.
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63 To use a font set, the file needs to be referenced in the MapServer template
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64 otherwise the converter can not create character symbols and will show up errors
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65 in the conversion process.
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67 The converter uses a separate symbol file to provide symbol sets to the
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69 template to have initial symbols available. If no symbol file is referenced a
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70 new one is created by the converter if necessary. The resulting symbol set is
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71 written to the same directory as the output mapfile named
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72 [mapfile-name]-symbols.sym.
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75 Features
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76 --------
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78 MXD2map currently supportes the following features:
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80 * Datasources:
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82 * ArcSDE vector database connections (requires MapServer built against ArcSDE, Client-dlls needed)
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83 * ESRI-Shapefiles
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85 * Symbols:
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87 * Simple marker symbols
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88 * Character marker symbols
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89 * Arrow marker symbols
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90 * Symbols based on TTF-characters of special cartographic fonts
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91 * Any combination of character marker symbols
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92 * Linesymbols with pattern and cartographic attributes
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93 * Polygons filled with solid color and outline
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94 * Polygons filled with a hatch and hatched outline
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96 * Layer types:
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98 * Featurelayer (vectors) as POINT, LINESTRING and POLYGON
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99 * Classifications with unique values
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100 * Classifications with class breaks
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101 * Group-members are concatinated to group.layername. This ensures having discrete layernames
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102 * ArcGIS-layergroups are represented as WMS Named layers, which are WMS-layers without a title (so not requestable throuhg GetMap)
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103 * all definition-queries for filtering the data on Layer- and classification-level
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105 * Further map attributes:
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107 * Projections and units based on the EPSG-table
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108 * Min/max scale denominations at layer and label-level
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109 * Map extents
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110 * Simple labeling
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111 * Filter and expressions
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112 * ArcSDE Jointables
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113 * Mapfile-Templating for OGC-related stuff
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114 * Simple Labeling-syntax (a subset of ArcGISs VBScript-labels)
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116 * Other features
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118 * Umlauts are translated into its equivalents within LAYER-names,
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119 CLASS-names and also mapfile-names. Though it is good standard not to
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120 use them since they mostly cause problems when using them within
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121 OWS-related services.
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122 *
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