[Benchmarking] Styling gnis_pop

[Daniel Morissette]

Andrea Aime wrote:
> 
> I guess we could take some 10 of the most popular
> classes and have them symbolized with a png or
> ttf marker and have a label drawn below it.
> How does this sound? With some varied zoom
> levels it should exercise also label conflict
> detection.
> 

That sounds good to me.

> 
> Oh, the data set is complete USA wise and contains
> almost 2 million points, to make it comparable with
> the roads layers maybe we should filter out only
> the points in Texas? That would leave us with a much
> smaller data set, only 95k points and the following
> distribution:
> 

Either way. The 2 million points for all US is not a bad use case 
either, but I understand why we may also want to work with Texas only to 
have a coverage comparable to the road layer.

Daniel
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