Microsoft TerraServer: A Spatial Data Warehouse

Summary: TerraServer stores terabytes of earth imagery (aerial, satellite, topo) in a SQL data warehouse, accessible to Web browsers via tiled atlases. It proves relational databases can manage large-scale geo-imagery and deliver web-based spatial data, with operational lessons from ~18 months. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3194
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2000
Pagerank: 4.613363e-05
Overall Rank: 7,971 | 44.55%
DOI: -

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