SHP point to line

[Stephen Woodbridge]

antti siukola wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to get angle data from a shp file that is point information?
> The shp contains the data but I can't get it automatically out of
> there. LABEL docs say that ANGLE can automatically computed only from
> LINE information but is there another way?

Antti,

What is the angle of a point?
Can you explain what you are trying to do?
Do you have an angle column in the shape file that you want to use for 
the orientation of the label?

-Steve

> Antti S
> 
> On 8/8/06, antti siukola <siukola.antti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have a shp-file that contains a lot of point information. Is there a
>> way I could translate this to lines? Should this even work? The thing
>> is that the layer contains street names that are connected to these
>> points but then I can't get the angle information out of the shp
>> automatically since it only works with lines.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Antti S
>>
>