[Gdal-dev] Label Styles and MapInfo Formats

[L Pool]

Hi,

I'm using OGR Style String Management to manage the Styles from Vector Map
Formats. Sofar its been going well. Because I'd like to be able to handle a
variety of Vector Maps, I'd like to stick to the common interface provided
by the OGR Style Tools and Style Definitions. And not delve into the Field
Definitions of the Vector Tables.

Currently I've hit a bit of a hitch with one of the Vector Formats I've been
processing - the Table is defined as (below is an excerpt from the console
output of my program):

For layer 2
Layer Schema Definition   - Country_Name
With 3 Field(s)
Field 1 - Name: "Countries" Type: "String"
Field 2 - Name: "Longitude" Type: "Double"
Field 3 - Name: "Latitude" Type: "Double"
Layer has 64 features
Layer has a Geographic Spatial Ref
Layer has bounds - (73.546,-42.04) to (229.78,46.77)

The Geometry is OGRPoint and one would expect that the Point would the
Lat/Long pair where the Country Name should be placed - but the Style Tool
is not defined as a Label Tool and the Country Name Text is therefore not
available by using the Style Tools. For the moment I'm hacking it a bit by
looking for Fields defined as String when getting an OGRPoint Geometry and
then extracting the Field Value from the Feature - but I would like to know
if there is a more eloquent and generic way to acquire the Text.

Regards,
Louis Pool.