[gdal-dev] Adding labels / specifying styles

Benoît Laurent blaurent at heurisis.eu
Thu May 2 08:45:52 PDT 2013


Thank you for your quick answer.
> 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.
That's what I have already done indeed.

After that, I am importing my shapefiles in QGis. Maybe, I should create 
my labels using a Python script based on the added text column ?

Regards,

Benoît



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