[Benchmarking] Sample Barcelona Vector Dataset

[Jeff McKenna]

update: this is actually a 9 year old bug in MapServer 
(http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/60) and I hope that we can add 
this feature through this benchmarking exercise.

Thanks for pushing Iván! :)

-jeff



Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> On Monday 19 July 2010 21:00:30 Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> [...] the field that we would use is COTA_0201; the problem is that that 
>> field has a precision of 15, meaning existing values are similar 
>> to "300.000000000000000". MapServer doesn't have a way (yet) to trim these 
>> values [...]
> 
> It's not a bug; it's a feature :-)
> 
> 
> When I suggested using real-world data, one of the goals I had in mind was to 
> put the software on front of real-world problems. Like some guy thinking it 
> would be a good idea to put a double precision field instead of an integer or 
> string field.
> 
> My take on this issue is "this is a real-world problem of real-world data, 
> deal with it". GIS software, including WMS server software, is expected to 
> work around this kind of problems.
> 
> 
> Personally, I'd like this "bug" to be present in the baseline data. We can 
> pre-process the data, but only if we reach a consensus during a wednesday IRC 
> meeting.