[gdal-dev] Adding labels / specifying styles

Alexandre Gacon alexandre.gacon+gdal at gmail.com
Thu May 2 08:38:26 PDT 2013


Hi,

The shapefile format is not a format who supports styles and labels. It is
a data only format. So you can not associate labels to your points. You can
at most add a column with a text.

Regards
Alexandre


2013/5/2 Benoît Laurent <blaurent at heurisis.eu>

> Hello,
>
> I am a newbie with GDAL and OGR.
>
> I managed to create a shapefile following the provided sample :
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_**apitut.html<http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html>
> .
>
> The shapefile contains points. Now, I would like to associate labels to my
> points. I also wish to specify the size, the color of my points. Is it
> possible ? How ?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your help.
>
> Benoît
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