[OSM-talk] MXD for OSM data?

[Martijn van Exel]

On Jan 18, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:

> El Lunes, 18 de Enero de 2010, Martijn van Exel escribió:
>> Someone asked me for an ESRI MXD file for OSM data. Does such a thing
>> exist?
> 
> Short answer: no.
> 
>> Does the question even make sense? I'm not very good at ESRI lingo, 
>> but apparently it's some kind of stylesheet.
> 
> Long answer: a .mxd file is a "project" file. It's nothing but a bunch of 
> links to data files (or database connections, or WMS/WFS links), and 
> the "stylesheets" applied to each one, plus the layering order, plus 
> (optionally) VB scripts embedded in the project file.
> 

VB Scripts? Are you kidding me? Wow.

I guess the stylesheets is what they're after. Are those in a separate file or is it all just one blob of VBScript and XML and whatnot?

Martijn
> 
> A .mxd file is not data. And OSM is All About The Data(tm).
> 
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