The vector data in the upper figure are stored as a string of (x, y) coordinates.
Another advantage of vector data is that it is easy to update and maintain.
In addition, vector data allows much more analysis capability, especially for "networks" such as roads, power, rail, telecommunications, etc.
The street network and other vector data Yahoo!
In vector data, the additional data contains attributes of the feature.
Much of that information, called vector data, is in the public domain and on the Web.
Ky's navigator converted the vector data into a line on the screen.
That card converts the received vector data to movement information which is sent to the scanhead.
Scanning a map results in raster data that could be further processed to produce vector data.
In total, the disk system stored about 500,000 18-bit words, with about 20,000 bytes of vector data being used.