the image is so detailed that if we were to zoom to maximum resolution we could easily see every vehicle and in many cases individual people throughout many square miles of the san francisco peninsula from the airport to half moon bay. despite the large size of the image, the power and speed of sql server together with manifold are so fast that we can pan and zoom to any desired view virtually instantaneously. notes manifold spatial dbms storage of images is so fast that if we have a fast dbms like sql server 2008 available for image storage there is no gain in using compressed image technology like ecw. for that matter, the technology in this topic scales so well that if we have the database server space and performance available to handle really large data, there is no need to manually chop up very large images into image libraries or other means of assembling larger images from smaller files. the performance available by combining manifold with a fast dbms allows a change in strategy for handling large files as compared to earlier technology. for example,
Windows 7 Professional, many government agencies and jurisdictions, from small cities to states and countries, are now compiling collections of very detailed aerial imagery. such collections of images are often available to the public,
Windows 7 Starter, if the public is able to handle the very large numbers of very large images involved. such collections often include hundreds of images that are each hundreds of megabytes in size. with older technology we might have had to deal with many large images by keeping the images separate so that each could be displayed with reasonable performance. manifold storage of images in dbms is so fast that an entire collection of hundreds of images could be combined into a single 100 gb+ image stored within a dbms and manifold would be able to display it almost instantly,
Office 2007 Pro Plus, using the spatial structures maintained by manifold to fetch the right tiles for the right intermediate or full-resolution data for whatever view is required. as a practical matter, most users will still keep some reasonable upper limit to the size of any one image in order to facilitate interchange and uploading into the dbms, but there is no longer much of an upper limit in most applications to the size of images that,
Microsoft Office Standard, once stored in the dbms,
Windows 7 Home Premium Key, can be displayed within manifold. historical note
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