Oops, that reply didn't go to the developer list Sorry for the double-up, user list.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alister Hood > Sent: Friday, 4 November 2011 11:32 a.m. > To: '[email protected]' > Cc: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [Qgis-user] Rule based labeling ideas > > Hi Nathan, > I suggested a similar thing as part of http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4123 - have > you seen that ticket? > I haven't got around to splitting it up like Martin suggested :( > I think the way I suggested dealing with labels would be simpler for the user. > > Also, at least for your second option ("ui in the labelling tab"), it seems > like you have only considered that users want to apply different text to labels > for different rules. I think it is very common for users to want to apply > different formatting to the labels, e.g. larger text for highways or large > cities than for side streets or small towns. > > Alister > > > > Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 23:25:14 +1000 > > From: Nathan Woodrow <[email protected]> > > Subject: [Qgis-user] Rule based labeling ideas > > To: [email protected], qgis-user > > <[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > <CAAi8Yg8j6JuGPxbEQeTnkto6Wp55A=xla-e0ogmss301k5c...@mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Hi all, > > > > I was playing around with some uDig, SLD and MapServer today and how they > > handle labeling features and I noticed that they do labels per class (per > > symbol in our case) and I remember seeing that rule based labeling was on > > the To-Talk-About list for the next hackfest and thought I would throw a > > few ideas about how I thought we could do it. > > > > I have written a few details about my ideas here > > http://www.qgis.org/wiki/RuleBasedLabelingIdeas > > > > Would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this. > > > > My motivation for thinking this would be good is that it's a pretty > > powerful feature in SLD and MapServer but all the UIs that I have seen to > > handle defining the labels per feature class/symbol are very below par IMO. > > > > - Nathan _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
