[gradsusr] Displaying name of a shapefile on map

[Sourabh Shrivastava]

no, you cant display names on map. you can only extract the information
only. for display the names over map you need to go withArcGis or Qgis.

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Jennifer Adams <jma at cola.iges.org> wrote:

> You can use the 'q shp' and 'q dbf' commands to get metadata from the
> shapefiles. Then you can parse the output and use 'draw string' to write
> labels.
> --Jennifer
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> On Nov 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zaib-un- Nisa <zaib.envsc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi there,
>
> How can i display the names on map from name attribute of a shapefile,
> anyone knows?
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