Once you've got the data stored in the table, you can then use desktop mapping products like QGIS (http://qgis.org) to use those columns to fuel labelling on your maps. I highly recommend you checkout QGIS for your next steps.
Tyler On 2013-05-02, at 8:38 AM, Alexandre Gacon wrote: > Hi, > > The shapefile format is not a format who supports styles and labels. It is a > data only format. So you can not associate labels to your points. You can at > most add a column with a text. > > Regards > Alexandre > > > 2013/5/2 Benoît Laurent <[email protected]> > Hello, > > I am a newbie with GDAL and OGR. > > I managed to create a shapefile following the provided sample : > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html. > > The shapefile contains points. Now, I would like to associate labels to my > points. I also wish to specify the size, the color of my points. Is it > possible ? How ? > > Thank you very much in advance for your help. > > Benoît > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > > > > -- > Alexandre Gacon > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev Tyler Mitchell Engineering Director Actian Corporation [email protected] MOBILE 250-303-1831 SKYPE spatialguru www.actian.com
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