Christoph Hormann wrote:
> No.  you can already use that large images right now - your OS swapping 
> and address space permitting.  You don't do this though because the 
> performance loss makes it unfeasible. This isn't different with 
> 'on-demand' reading of image data from disk (except parsing might be a 
> bit faster in the latter case).

No, I literally don't have any software that can read such a large 
image.  ^^;  Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Photoshop, and so forth, can't read 
images larger than a certain size, I think around 32768 for either 
dimension, which the 500 m/pixel set definitely exceeds, horizontally...

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