Re: Oracle Spatial Comments and/or advise
- From: Jason Heinrich <jheinrichdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:46:55 -0500
Also consider that while Spatial is an added-cost EE option, basic spatial
functionality (called Locator) is included for free, even in SE. Depending
on your requirements, you may not need to pay anything at all.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/index.html
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Jason Heinrich
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've started using it with 11.1.
>
> We have an enterprise license, so I'm not sure of the approximate
> cost. I've written a few routines to write the spatial data out to a
> KML file and to read it in from a KML file, so it's easier to use
> interchangably with Google Earth, and there are several tools out
> there that also allow ARC to read and write KML files as well, so this
> approach makes it a lot easier for me to provide output that the ARC
> users can use (shapefiles are a nightmare, like everything ARC and
> ESRI does).
>
> It took a bit of reading to learn how to get the various pieces I
> needed to work correctly, but the OTN forums and the Pro Oracle
> Spatial book were extremely helpful in getting me started in the right
> direction. Ease of use is actaully pretty easy now that I've got
> everything setup correctly and learned the 'spatial syntax'.
>
>
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