Ole,

You create contours directly into KML format using the -f option.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Ole Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Thank you very much for your reply. I misunderstood the –a option. It
> works beautifully and our SHP as well as KML files now have each contour
> clearly labelled with its value.
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> Here’s an example of a command that does the trick.
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> gdal_contour -a Thickness[cm] -fl  1.000000 2.000000 5.000000 50.000000
> 100.000000 <tiffile> <shpfile>
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> Thanks again
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> Ole
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> Dr Ole Nielsen
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> Numerical Modeller
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> Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction
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> Mobile: +62 811 820 4637 | Phone: +62 21 398 30088 x1007 | Fax: +62 21 398
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> *From:* Chaitanya kumar CH [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 July 2010 3:27 PM
> *To:* Ole Nielsen
> *Cc:* [email protected]; [email protected]; Kristy Van Putten
> *Subject:* Re: [gdal-dev] Which contour is which?
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> 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)
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> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Ole Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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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> Numerical Modeller
>
> Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction
>
> Mobile: +62 811 820 4637 | Phone: +62 21 398 30088 x1007 | Fax: +62 21 398
> 30068
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Chaitanya kumar CH.
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+91-9494447584
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