Importing Map Package

Birdy123

Hello. 

 

Ive been given an Esri Map Package and Layer Packages, generated on ArcGIS Pro, by a client.

We ourselves do not own ArcGIS Desktop or Enterprise solutions but would like to store the data the client provided.

We are aware that the MPRX and LPRX files are zip files containing an Esri File Geodb and some Json containing information about the style and structure. 

My question is this, are we able to convert this file by unzipping and using its content? Are there any license issues with doing so? Our intention is to support the client with data and as they are ArcGIS users, we do not want to disrupt there processes by asking them to move to a different output. 

 

I can see tile packages are on github. But the other types don't appear to be.

Thanks

Birdy123

Thanks for the reply.

What content would you be using if you don't have an esri license?  There are open source solutions to reading file geodatabases?

We will just parse the Geodatabase in the "Map Package" (Zip)  using GDAL. Obviously it wont support all the datatypes. Just those covered by the open API. 

The client has a large number of ArcGIS Pro & Esri products and to ensure data continuity for all those teams wish to provide us the data as map package. In part because its a compressed format and a simple click process for them (i.e rather than having to collect and zip everything up). 

For us we simple want to pull in some of that data. What isn't clear is if we can just simply extract the map package and work with the data without breaching Esri software terms.