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 > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > How is it possible to determine which contour line corresponds to a > particular level? > > > > Best regards > > Ole > > > > > > > > Dr Ole Nielsen > > Numerical Modeller > > Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction > > Mobile: +62 811 820 4637 | Phone: +62 21 398 30088 x1007 | Fax: +62 21 398 > 30068 > > > > [image: cid:[email protected]] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. /tʃaɪθənjə/ /kʊmɑr/ +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E
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