The following commit has been merged in the jessie branch:
commit 2b38b3133999e3b93f0ec24c8a545ae4816264b5
Author: Bas Couwenberg <[email protected]>
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>
--
Mapserver
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