<div dir="ltr">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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">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. <div>—Jennifer<br><div><br><div><div>On Nov 26, 2014, at 8:48 AM, Zaib-un- Nisa <<a href="mailto:zaib.envsc@gmail.com" target="_blank">zaib.envsc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi there,<br><div><br>How can i display the names on map from name attribute of a shapefile, anyone knows?<br></div></div>
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