# Opening Another's Map

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/opening-anothers-map/2644>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 11, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/opening-anothers-map/2644 "2017-08-11T18:33:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@Ede](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Ede)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/opening-anothers-map/2644/1 "2017-08-11T18:33:21Z")

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I tried to open a map I am to edit and it is in the .png format - gives the error for unrecognized file format.

Does it have to be in .tmx in order for me to open it as a map in Tiled?

Or is there some way to make the map as a .png the tile set, select all the tiles and paste it to the map? The map and tile set would be the same size.

No import image?

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/opening-anothers-map/2644/2 "2017-08-11T22:06:55Z")

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Unfortunately this isn’t supported yet, even though I imagine it wouldn’t be that hard to implement. You can comment or subscribe on the following issue to see when it gets implemented:

[https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/issues/180](https://github.com/bjorn/tiled/issues/180)

In the meantime, there are some tools that can convert an arbitrary image to a TMX file + a tileset image, like ShoeBox: [http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/extractTiles.htm](http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/extractTiles.htm)