[gdal-dev] Adding labels / specifying styles

[Newcomb, Doug]

Benoit,
 You can also script plotting in GRASS ,
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ps.map_scripts

Doug


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Benoît Laurent <blaurent at heurisis.eu> wrote:

> 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<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
>
>
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