In the example below, I will be labeling major lakes in the United States.
First, I open up Shape2Earth from MapWindow GIS
Then, from the Properties tab, I select the points that I want to use for the labels using the Enhanced Point Selector dialog box.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggt2JWnIOj16_6kWbopSnlH73hQVmoa9tR6yN4ig6PZQiLjZ_YOFqYvH5NLBY5vUvFnchMjwZ6yMPNFtYtVNVdIlj-9vAsaDkwMpBhyFHBGZX8toPfU6ksZWPRepz9FaTJ3KiQ-g/s320/point_selector.jpg)
If I want there to be only text, I make the size of the icon zero, and do not add a label rollover. If I want to make it a bit fancier, I can select one point for the label, and another that is displayed when the user rolls over it.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBcNGQVsXDPn_bs81aEL5Cbw89FupLg9XHCQ3-SrHiuZyLqYOaJfggaRUFKr6L1IYJYB1NkuCMlALhSkmNGhHr-SGlWBrI-RbSPAbh37_O3KbTlvoPDUjQLjBF3L9FmDLffSAkvg/s320/shp2e_properties.jpg)
Finally, I can select which attribute field I want to use to label each polygon. I can also select to sort the features so that they will be displayed in alphabetical order.
A simple result is show below.
These methods can be used to make some rather sophisticated views in Google Earth
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSG_E1ObadM82bkG0pL9hX6-tJAD-o8sTsJuoZj_2oTy0nTM-LZA8d1isO1WNgvW5xELH35moxrIpOp5TwqUFR1PWQVjiVoHFkTBK0teRCUSA-5X6z14lLiODHgPIhyphenhyphenc3aTjKh6w/s320/allTogether.jpg)
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