Can I use Zoomify with vector maps?
Yes and no. Vector content in the form of a SWF file can easily be used as a hotspot (label, overlay) within the Zoomify Hotspot Viewer. Vector content cannot currently be converted using the Zoomify Converter into a base image to be displayed within the Zoomify Viewer. The benefit of the Zoomify technology is in the rapid, interactive viewing of bitmap (photo) files. This is essential as bitmap images of any reasonable quality typically make for very large files. Cutting these files into JPEG tiles and doing so at many different tiers of resolution enables the Zoomify Viewer to download only the small portion of the image that is essential for the current view that has been zoomed and panned to by the user. This ensures that each new view will require only a download of perhaps 100k to 300k regardless of whether the source image is 5 megabytes or 500 gigabytes in size. Vector content, in contrast, is typically small with respect to file size. It can be downloaded quickly and scaled wi
