[Benchmarking] Vector data

[Jeff McKenna]

And more thoughts:

- did we establish rules for pre-processing of the data for display? 
(maybe we should?)
- if not, then are we saying that the data can be modified as required 
by each different server?

thanks.

(ok will wait for feedback)

-jeff



Jeff McKenna wrote:
> More thoughts on this:
> 
> - is this pre-processing of the roads data done for other servers? (e.g. 
> GeoServer)
> - for MapServer I would normally leave the county data in each of their 
> folders, generate a shptree index for each individual county roads file, 
> and then create one tileindex.   This is best for performance.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> (also available on IRC)
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> I'm getting started with the vector data, but I am surprised to see 
>> that all of the TIGER roads for Texas have been merged into one file 
>> "tiger_shp.shp".  Since US Census Bureau distributes the files by 
>> county, and since we are doing 'real world use cases', shouldn't we 
>> also have each county file for Texas (and then rely on indexing for 
>> display)?
>>
> 
> 
> 


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