We are pleased to announce today that we have posted Terrain Analysis Package (TAP™) 6.3 Release 2540, which includes a new accelerated bounded tile calculation engine that reduces the time required to execute bounded tile studies by more than 90% in many cases. The new calculation engine is available to all TAP™ 6.3 customers.
accelerated bounded tile calculations
TAP™ 6.3 Release 2540 features a new accelerated bounded tile calculation engine. Bounded tile studies allow users to calculate coverage over a rectangular grid that is inside a selected map boundary. Common boundaries used in tile studies are state borders, county borders, and other municipal boundaries of interest. Using a bounded tile study, it is straightforward to calculate important coverage statistics, such as the percentage of area covered and percentage of population covered within an irregular boundary.
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In SoftWright benchmark testing using a solid state drive (SSD) for topographical data storage, bounded tile studies exhibited a reduction in execution times by a factor of approximately 30.
For more information on the new calculation engine or how to update TAP™ software to the latest version, please contact Curt Alway at (800) 728-4033×1 or curt.alway@softwright.com.