[postgis-users] Getting dimensions of polygon sides

[Randall, Eric]

Maybe not be on the point of this discussion but as the ArcGIS 9.2  "feature to point, line, and polygon" tools output annotation to shape, feature class, etc., sometimes weirdly,  and since the attributes have the text, angle, fontsize, etc., I generally export as point shapefiles, then bring them into PostGIS.  QGIS and OpenJump labels
reference the font, angle fields so with points set as transparent they look pretty good I think. 
 
-Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net]On Behalf Of Bruce Rindahl
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:09 PM
To: PostGIS Users Discussion
Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Getting dimensions of polygon sides



Obe, Regina wrote: 

 When I exported it out with Ogr2Ogr, it exported out polygon boxes

angled in the direction the text should be angled (almost like a

placeholder for the text). 

  

That is how I get it.  You can use it in ArcMap but the exported shapefile is exactly as you describe.
Bruce



So does it look fine in ArcMap, but when you export it out it sometimes

has a line crossing itself? or you can't export it out at all? 



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From:  postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net

[ mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of

Bruce Rindahl

Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:08 AM

To: PostGIS Users Discussion

Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Getting dimensions of polygon sides



My limited experience is the annotation in ArcMap can be a pretty 

bizarre format.  Sometimes is comes out fine - other times it has a line



crossing itself.  If you have a curved annotation, it gets even worse.



Bruce



Obe, Regina wrote:

  

Can someone who has ArcMap 9.2 verify for me if it can or can not

    

export

  

annotations in ESRI Shapefile format.  The idea that it can't is

    

totally

  

baffling to me.  So I'm guessing its some misunderstanding. I still

    

have

  

to install my ArcMap 9.2 and become an addict, but I think it would

    

take

  

me a while to get up to speed since all the menu options are too much

for my little brain to handle.



  

    



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