[SCM] mapserver branch, master, updated. upstream/6.2.1-97-g257f52a

Bas Couwenberg sebastic at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 17 20:30:20 UTC 2013


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2b38b3133999e3b93f0ec24c8a545ae4816264b5
Author: Bas Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
Date:   Sun Jul 14 15:36:53 2013 +0200

    Fix description section for sortshp.

diff --git a/debian/man/sortshp.1.xml b/debian/man/sortshp.1.xml
index 5ee1d5a..f3a7188 100644
--- a/debian/man/sortshp.1.xml
+++ b/debian/man/sortshp.1.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,15 @@
   <refsect1 id='description'>
     <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
     <para>
-      <command>sortshp</command> displays an example.
+      <command>sortshp</command> sorts a Shape data set based on a single column
+      in ascending or descending order. Supports INTEGER, DOUBLE and STRING
+      column types. Useful for prioritizing shapes for rendering and/or labeling.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The idea here is that if you know that you need to display a certain
+      attribute classed by a certain value, it will be faster for MapServer to
+      access that value if it is at the beginning of the attribute file.
     </para>
   </refsect1>
 

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