Friday 19 September 2014

BIG DATA? Nope, just geospatial data

We often hear about Big Data, but this is a fairly meaningless term, data has always been able to be 'big' its just how you deal with it. This definitely applies to geospatial data which, when mapping the world, doesn't get much bigger. The dataset I created below is a 50m topographic exposure model for the whole of Australia and surrounding islands. This involved approximately 1.6 trillion calculations, some say "big", I say, "nope, just geospatial"




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