[mapserver-dev] Standardized header: purpose ambiguous

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Wed Feb 13 14:54:26 EST 2008


Normand Savard wrote:
> The purpose of the sortshp.c file seems to be ambiguous:  "Commandline 
> utility to ... sort shapes?  Not sure what its for."  Can someone 
> confirm if the purpose is correct?
> 

Perhaps borrow stuff from the docs:

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/docs/reference/utilityreference/sortshp

Something like:

"Commandline utility to sort a shapefile based on a single column in 
ascending or descending order. Useful for prioritizing shapes for 
rendering and/or labeling."

Daniel
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