[Benchmarking] Styling gnis_pop

[Andrea Aime]

Daniel Morissette ha scritto:
> 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.

I'm ok either way as well, it's not like I feel strongly on this
specific point.
Does anyone has a stronger opinion one way or the other?

Cheers
Andrea

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