Labeling GIS Data with Shape2Earth

One of the most requested functional additions for Shape2Earth has been the ability to label polygons. This is now possible with the use of a centroid function that creates a point in the middle of the polygon for the label.

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.

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.


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