[Qgis-user] Re: customize label placement via attributes

[maning sambale]

I found this data "defined placement", but what data should be in the fields?

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:44 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I want to be able to use a vector attribute for locating labels.  For
> example, I have a point layer of city names
>
> no,name,position
> 1,X city,left
> 2,Y city, right
>
> or
> no,name,position,x_offset,y_offset
> 1,X city,left,1,2
> 2,Y city, right,2,3
>
>
> Imhof have this advise: names should be placed wholly on the land.  My
> mapping area have this very complicated land-ocean interface.
> Any advise?
>
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> cheers,
> maning
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maning
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