[gdal-dev] Adding labels / specifying styles

[Benoît Laurent]

Le 02/05/2013 18:29, Jukka Rahkonen a écrit :
> Alexandre Gacon <alexandre.gacon+gdal <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> It is true, but not the whole truth. GDAL does understand certain kind of
> attributes as drawing styles,
I had searched in that direction, more precisely in the OGR API 
documentation : http://www.gdal.org/ogr/classOGRStyleTool.html. However, 
I was stuck as I did not know to which objects the styles has to be 
applied. I was looking for some samples.

At that point, I have the choice between different solutions:
1) using the Atlas plugin ;
2) coming back to my first idea of using OGR ;
3) trying to examine the way Qgis projects are generated ;
4) writing a python script.

The easiest solution seems to be the first one... In the long term, I 
would prefer the second one.

I shall tell you my choice.

Regards,

Benoît