Is there any hack that would allow for setting colours based on attributes and then write this information to some other type of file that can later be used by a GIS to color a .shp automatically?
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How to write color information based on attributes for a shp file?
+1- Contributor
I presume I can't write a .lyr file since no such writer exists (is this an ESRI restriction?).
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Hi, I think there is no way to store color information for shp file other than storing as feature attributes.
Takashi
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Do you have a .lyr file already setup?
If it is there you could write to an mxd and reference the .lyr set up file.
+15- Contributor
Hi,
the lyr file is a OLE2 Compound Document format and not published.
Apparently u can acces it (and with some fiddling even write them) using tools.
see for instance
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/107/are-the-esri-lyr-and-mxd-data-format-specs-published