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A Load-on-Demand Approach to Handling Large Networks in the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model

Network modeling, management, and analysis are common tasks for enterprise applications such as Geographic Information System GIS, Customer Relationship Management CRM, social network analysis, and in semantic web technologies such as the Resource Description Framework RDF. Oracle10g introduced the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model NDM, which lets users model and...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Network, Analysis, Semantic Web, Networking, Internet

White papers 2009-02-01

Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial 11g Best Practices

This white paper describes best practices for Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial with SDO_GEOMETRY, the Oracle Database native data type for storing vector data. Oracle Spatial extends the core location features included in every Oracle database with Oracle Locator. Therefore, this paper refers to Oracle Locator when describing best practices...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Oracle Locator, Best Practice, GIS, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-01-01

Dublin Bus Streamlines Maintenance and Cuts Costs by Spatially Enabling Data From 5,000 Bus Stops

Dublin Bus wanted to capture, store, query, and maintain accurate, up-to-date information on the company's 5,000 bus stops and make it accessible to managers and planners in multiple locations and automate the generation of work requests following damage reports and complete repairs faster and more cost effectively. The challenge was...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Bus Stop, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Channel Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2008-08-01

Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management

Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around the needs of citizens while releasing resources for "Frontline" services. The challenge was to accelerate...

Tags: Asset, Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Disaster Management, Asset Management, Disaster Recovery, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Data Management

Case studies 2008-04-01

Integrating Oracle Spatial With Google Earth

The world is flocking to location technologies. Whether people are searching for their houses on Google Earth, tracking their kids with GPS-enabled cell phones, or utilizing the inherent location-enabling capabilities built in to their enterprise Oracle architectures, it seems that not only is everyone interested in location but their lives...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Open-source Community, Google Earth, Open Source

White papers 2007-07-01

Oracle Spatial 10g

Oracle Spatial, an option for Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition, includes advanced spatial capabilities to support GIS applications, location-based services, and enterprise spatial information systems. Oracle Spatial extends the core location features included in every Oracle database with Oracle Locator. In general, this white paper describes those features included only...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., GIS, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2005-06-01

Oracle Database 10g: Building GIS Applications Using the Oracle Spatial Network Data Model

Network modeling, management, and analysis are common tasks for Geographic Information Systems GIS. Network analysis includes routing path computation in transportation networks, tracing accessibility in utility networks, and resource allocation in decision-making and customer relationship management CRM applications. This paper presents the Oracle Spatial network data model, an Oracle Database...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Network, Oracle Database, Analysis, Oracle Database 10g, Modeling, Network Analysis, Research & Development, GIS, Transportation, Networking, Business Operations, Software

White papers 2005-05-01

Oracle Database 10g: Oracle Spatial Network Data Model

The Oracle Spatial network data model, available with Oracle Spatial 10g, provides the capabilities for modeling and analyzing network applications. The network data model is an open and generic network data model that represents networks in object-relational form in the database and as Java objects in client or application tier....

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Network, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Network Data, Networking

White papers 2005-05-01

Oracle Spatial Partitioning: Best Practices

Oracle's scalable database architecture includes partitioning, in which a single logical table and its indexes are broken up into one or more physical tables, each with its own index. There are many different ways to partition data, however this paper will focus on range partitioning with Oracle Spatial. Range partitioning...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Index, Best Practice, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2004-11-01

Accessing Oracle Spatial Data with Autodesk Map 3D

Many organizations such as utilities, telecommunication providers, and government agencies depend on geospatial data that is stored in an Oracle database. Autodesk Map 3D enables organizations to expand access to spatial data by letting other groups such as the engineering staff obtain data that was once available only to GIS...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, 3D, Oracle Corp., Autodesk Inc., Autodesk Map 3D, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers

Using FME to Load GIS Data Into Oracle Spatial

When the City of Vancouver decided to move the GIS data from their existing VISION system to Oracle Spatial, they didn't want to trust the translation of the data, which they use to run a billion-dollar infrastructure, to just anyone. They turned to Safe Software. Working with Safe for a...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Vision, Safe Software, GIS, Strategy, Software, Management

Case studies

Building a Dynamic GIS Solution With Autodesk and Oracle Spatial Products

Located about 35 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., Prince William County is a mixture of farmland and suburban development. Creating a digital representation of every aspect of the system is a huge undertaking in and of itself. The task is made more difficult by the fact that the system is...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., DLT Solutions, Autodesk Inc., GIS, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Case studies

PEMEX SICORI Increases Productivity of Its Geospatial Services by 500% Using an Innovative Technology Platform

PEtroleos MEXicanos PEMEX, one of the largest state petroleum companies in the world, created the Corporate Information System SICORI to generate a flow of information to support operations in its central agency and subsidiary agencies specializing in exploration, production, petrochemistry, refining and gas. SICORI needed to make a definitive decision...

Tags: Oracle Spatial, Oracle Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Databases, Marketing, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Case studies

Additional Resources

Oracle delivers native support for Thomson Reuters' OpenCalais service

Thomson Reuters and Oracle today announced support for the media giant's OpenCalais metadata generation service within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g. The integration gives Oracle users and developers direct access to OpenCalais' natural language processing NLP capabilities. More importantly, perhaps, direct integration with an Enterprise product...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Oracle Corp., Paul Miller

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer 11g Technical Overview

Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer (or simply, MapViewer) provides powerful geospatial data visualization and reporting services. Written purely in Java and run in a J2EE environment, MapViewer provides web application developers a versatile means to integrate and visualize business data with maps. MapViewer uses the basic capability included with Oracle10g (delivered...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Middleware MapViewer, AJAX, Cloud Computing, J2Ee, Middleware, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-07-01

Exor Corporation Builds World's First and Only Out-of-The-Box Solution for Managing Linear Assets

Exor Corporation wanted to capitalize on the multi-industry need for a suite of enhanced management capabilities for linear and other assets, such as highways, railroad tracks, transmission lines, and drainage and build a comprehensive, customer-configurable, end-to-end integrated toolset to eliminate restrictions of competitor solutions that require predefined segmentation of linear...

Tags: Asset, Oracle Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

Case studies 2009-04-01

Advanced Spatial Data Management for Enterprise Applications

Oracle Spatial 11g, an option for Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition, provides advanced spatial capabilities to support geospatial applications, location-based services, and enterprise spatial information systems. Oracle Spatial extends the core location features included in every Oracle database with Oracle Locator. Its advanced data manipulation and spatial analysis features include...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Analysis, Enterprise Application, Data Management, Supply Chain, Databases, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer 10g (10.1.3.3)

Every Oracle Database includes extensive spatial capabilities in the Oracle Locator feature. Oracle Spatial option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition expands Oracle Locator functionality with support for Geocoding, Routing, and advanced spatial data models to manage topologies, networks, linear referencing, gridded data and georaster imagery. Users can load all types...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Middleware, Oracle Database, MapViewer, Databases, Data Management, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

Let's be smart about patching databases

* Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Slavik Markovich Every quarter, around the time of the Oracle Critical Patch Update CPU or the Microsoft "Patch Tuesday," rituals take place â€" some behind closed doors, others in the media. Web sites report of the...

Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Patch Management, Storage, Strategy, Databases, Security, Hardware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Luton Borough Council Leverages Web Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Service

Luton Borough Council wanted to meet government requirement for online delivery of council services while using existing technology to keep costs low and improve service quality and availability, and launch innovative new solutions to meet the needs of the borough and its citizens. The challenge was to gain accurate, up-to-date...

Tags: Web, Customer Service, Oracle Corp., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Channel Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

Case studies 2008-12-01