ArcGIS MXD Metadata Read/Write
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Great idea. This would be useful for creating map outputs. So having the option to use MXD templates in both an MXD and a PDF writer would be perfect.
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This might be a good option for a hub transformer as functions for this exist in ArcPy.
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Could ArcGIS Pro projects be included in this? Since one day they will be the default rather than MXDs.
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@fmelizard How about making this idea "Create a Web Map Reader & Writer" so that you're not limited to ArcMap going in and coming out?
https://developers.arcgis.com/web-map-specification/
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Being able to extract the layer names from an mxd would be fantastic! Being able to dig a bit deeper and get the data source name would complete what it going to be a tedious manual task.
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Having an MXD Reader/ writer would benefit us with GDA 2020 conversion instead of having to run python scripts over mxds, a tedious task this will be
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ESRI are moving away from MXD, here is the issue tracking APRX supoport.
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