[gdal-dev] Adding labels / specifying styles

[Tyler Mitchell]

Once you've got the data stored in the table, you can then use desktop mapping products like QGIS (http://qgis.org) to use those columns to fuel labelling on your maps.   I highly recommend you checkout QGIS for your next steps.

Tyler

On 2013-05-02, at 8:38 AM, Alexandre Gacon wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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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