Export ArcGIS or ArcGIS Pro projects as a QGIS project

[GaryWilliams]

In a mixed environment with ArcGIS and QGIS, it would be great if we could export an ArcMap/ArcGIS Pro project into as a QGIS project.

[MarcoBoeringa]

I think the best bet for something like this to ever see the light, is through the new / upcoming styling options in the OGC GeoPackage standard:

https://www.geopackage.org/extensions.html

https://github.com/jyutzler/ogc-tb-15-opf/blob/master/spec/5-sse.adoc

It will probably take some time though, before we will see any decent support in the different GIS software solutions.

Of course, with Pro adopting the common JSON format for its layer file format (*.lyrx), nothing prevents you from writing your own converter to ingest Pro layer files. This was not possible in ArcMap.

[EmHain]

The QGIS plugin SLYR converts from ArcGIS Pro to QGIS. They are also continually working on providing more functionality to go from QGIS to ArcGIS Pro. There is a table on their Info page that details what they do. Some of it is free and the newer tools will be released for free once funding has been reached.