[GRASS-dev] [SoC] Parallelization of Raster and Vector modules

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Jordan Neumeyer
<jordan.neumeyer at mines.sdsmt.edu> wrote:
> I didn't realize how big the data set could be. What's
> biggest map you've seen?

Our provincial DEM is a 3.5GB Geotiff which is of 48800x58000 size.
Another file which I recently had to import was a 4GB Geotiff with
21550 bands. Finally, in remote sensing, you can quickly generate
quickly files in the multi-GB range.

Markus