[Qgis-developer] Rule based labeling ideas

[kimaidou]

Hi Nathan,

I think it is a great idea, and I would prefer your second proposal : "add
a new UI in the labeling tab that fills with the symbols defined from style
tab that lets you define labels for each symbol."

I agree with you with keeping a simple "default label". It will allow quick
labelling configuration, and won't prevent "power users" from using a more
complex labelling system per symbol if needed.

Kimaidou

2011/11/3 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>

> Hi all,
>
> I was playing around with some uDig, SLD and MapServer today and how they
> handle labeling features and I noticed that they do labels per class (per
> symbol in our case) and I remember seeing that rule based labeling was on
> the To-Talk-About list for the next hackfest and thought I would throw a
> few ideas about how I thought we could do it.
>
> I have written a few details about my ideas here
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/RuleBasedLabelingIdeas
>
> Would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this.
>
> My motivation for thinking this would be good is that it's a pretty
> powerful feature in SLD and MapServer but all the UIs that I have seen to
> handle defining the labels per feature class/symbol are very below par IMO.
>
> - Nathan
> http://woostuff.wordpress.com/
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