Ole,

You can specify a field in the contour features using the '-a' option. You
can also use the '-3d' option to include the elevation value in the z value
at every vertex. (http://www.gdal.org/gdal_contour.html)

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Ole Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Dear all
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> We are using gdal_contour to generate shape files. They look good and
> appear to be correct, but we need to label them with the value they
> represent.
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> However, no such information appears to be available in the shape files. We
> thought we could work with the ID attribute which is the only information
> available in the shapefiles generated by gdal_contour, but that does not
> generally reflect the order of the contour lines either.
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> How is it possible to determine which contour line corresponds to a
> particular level?
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> Best regards
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> Ole
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> Dr Ole Nielsen
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