Derek, gdal_rasterize does not support showing labels on the features. Try quantum gis. You can customize the output in countless different ways.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Derek Morgan <jdmor...@unca.edu> wrote: > Hello GDAL colleagues, > > This may be a simple question for most of you but I thought I would > ask it anyhow as I am at an impasse. I have a Counties shape file. I > am attempting to convert it to raster utilizing gdal_rasterize, and > this does work. However, I am attempting to carry into the output > file the county name preferably e.g. Orange County, or at least a > county identify of some kind. I have utilized a command similar to > the following: > > gdal_rasterize -a COUNTY -l -sql "select COUNTY, * from Counties" > Counties Counties.shp CountiesRaster.tif > > However, when I open the resulting raster file in ArcGIS and click on > one of the pixel to identify it I don’t see the county name. Is the > county name there and I am just not seeing it in ArcGIS indentify. I > realize there are probably more GDAL intensive ways to check for the > data, but I am still learning. I was hoping to someone could explain > to me what I am doing incorrectly. > > Thanks, > Derek > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E
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