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I have SLD's/lyr files with my shp/gdb files. They all have the same name except for the extension. Is it possible for me to force qgis to load the sld with the shp so that I don't need to manually go to properties, load style and ok it?

In arcmap I can just open the lyr instead of the .shp -is there a similar process for qgis?

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Where did those SLDs come from btw? – R.K. Sep 21 '12 at 6:56
These questions are only loosely related - they concern SLDs - but they really can and should be answered separately. I'll remove the second one. Please post it again. – underdark♦ Sep 21 '12 at 7:21
+1 for auto-reading SLDs to be considered as an enhancement for QGIS - why not submit a feature request? It could possibly also be easily done as a python plugin. – Spacedman Sep 21 '12 at 9:19

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I'm assuming we're both talking about the SLD XML schema specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for describing the appearance of map layers.

I have SLD's/lyr files with my shp/gdb files. They all have the same name except for the extension. Is it possible for me to force qgis to load the sld with the shp so that I don't need to manually go to properties, load style and ok it? In arcmap I can just open the lyr instead of the .shp -is there a similar process for qgis.

Unfortunately, you still have to load SLD styles manually for version 1.8 of QGIS.

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Hi, Thanks RK. Yes QGIS is the only desktop GIS that seems to read SLD's. I wish the biggies did as well (promote c.na9.visual.force.com/apex/ideaView?id=08730000000870cAAA). My question was can qgis autoload the sld with the shp. It's quite a time consuming manual process associating SLD's with datasets in qgis/geoserver -it would be nice to be able to automate this process like when you open .lyr in arc. The base SLD's were created from the free ver of Arc2Earth -see gis.stackexchange.com/questions/27807/… – GeorgeC Sep 22 '12 at 12:18
uDig can import SLD styles too if I'm not mistaken. There currently seems to be no way of loading SLD styles automatically on the current version of QGIS ( 1.8 ) – R.K. Sep 22 '12 at 13:32

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