[Qgis-user] RE: Enhanced labels in 1.7.0

[Andrew Chapman]

The background to these questions is that from 1st April 2011, the UK's
Ordnance Survey is introducing a major change to its licensing that will
make the majority of its GIS data freely available to most UK local
government users including about 10,000 parish councils. Most will not have
a GIS background or the budget for commercial software, so I'm trying to
create a simple "How To" guide to get them up and running with QGIS...
before they decide it is just too much effort and give up. I've no idea what
the total uptake could be, but I think that it is worth some effort.
This new licence also seems to apply to all UK schools, so there too is a
further similar sized potential user base.
Setting up a new installation, loading and styling GML data and working with
simple shapefiles would seem a lot for an absolute beginner. Telling them
that they also need to set up a database before they can even view a map
that looks like those on the OS website is, I feel, pushing beyond what is
realistic.

Andrew
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From: Andreas Neumann [mailto:a.neumann at carto.net] 
Sent: 25 March 2011 16:24
To: Andrew Chapman
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: Enhanced labels in 1.7.0

 Well - it has been discussed that - in case of point files - the
 geometry column could replace the x/y columns. But one would have to
 "special-case" point files, because the same dialogue also works for
 linestring and polygon data - where you really need the separate x/y
 columns.

 In your case - could you solve it with a database view? just link the
 x/y coordinate column to the point-geometry - this is what I do with
 Swiss cadastral data.

 It is the intention to remove the old labeling in QGIS 1.8 - so please
 report all problems in trac, so they can be addressed.

 Andreas

 On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:27:33 -0000, Andrew Chapman wrote:
> Andreas,
> Thanks for your suggestion - yes, attribute table references are
> needed for
> label distance, X & Y coordinates before the horizontal & vertical
> alignment
> fields and rotation are enabled. Pointing all of these to a dummy
> (null)
> attribute enables the rotation dropdown list, but selecting an
> attribute
> value for rotation (the same as in the old dialog) gives no rotation.
> On the assumption that I've not made any further incorrect
> assumptions and
> this functionality is as intended, I'll have to stick with the old
> labels -
> in the UK Ordnance Survey data that I use, labels are identified in
> point
> files with an rotation.
>
> Andrew

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