Derek,<br><br>gdal_rasterize does not support showing labels on the features. Try quantum gis. You can customize the output in countless different ways.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Derek Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdmorgan@unca.edu">jdmorgan@unca.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello GDAL colleagues,<br>
<br>
This may be a simple question for most of you but I thought I would<br>
ask it anyhow as I am at an impasse. I have a Counties shape file. I<br>
am attempting to convert it to raster utilizing gdal_rasterize, and<br>
this does work. However, I am attempting to carry into the output<br>
file the county name preferably e.g. Orange County, or at least a<br>
county identify of some kind. I have utilized a command similar to<br>
the following:<br>
<br>
gdal_rasterize -a COUNTY -l -sql "select COUNTY, * from Counties"<br>
Counties Counties.shp CountiesRaster.tif<br>
<br>
However, when I open the resulting raster file in ArcGIS and click on<br>
one of the pixel to identify it I don’t see the county name. Is the<br>
county name there and I am just not seeing it in ArcGIS indentify. I<br>
realize there are probably more GDAL intensive ways to check for the<br>
data, but I am still learning. I was hoping to someone could explain<br>
to me what I am doing incorrectly.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Derek<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Chaitanya kumar CH.<br><br>+91-9494447584<br>17.2416N 80.1426E<br>