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Re:'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored ... by brailsafe on Thursday December 01, 2022 @06:37PM (#33824673)
GIS can be hungry, but QGIS is incredible for what it is. Is there a remote sensing component to your project? Satellite tiffs are... big
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Re:'M2 Max' Geekbench scores leak online, revealing rumored ... by kelseyfrog on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:10PM (#33824976)
For sure! And yes parts of it involve raster data. It doesn't help that I have very little control over the raster internals.

My project is limited to NY,OR,WA, but this clearly has a potential sparse raster problem. If I was doing it in code, I'd reach for internally tiled cloud-optimized geotiffs with low compression and I'd be pretty sure that all the empty tiles would get compressed down to nothing.

With QGIS, I can cross my fingers and hope it's doing something relatively sane with GDAL in the background.

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