Oracle’s platform for geospatial developers

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Oracle’s platform for geospatial developers

Jayant Sharma, Technical Director, Spatial

Oracle USA Inc.

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Agenda

• Spatial platform

• Its usage

• Technology oerview

• Database

• Middleware

• Discussion

Maps, Geocoding, Search

Store and query spatial information

SELECT c.holding_company, c.location

FROM competitor c,

bank b

WHERE b.site_id = 1604

AND SDO_WITHIN_DISTANCE(c.location,

b.location,

'distance=2 unit=mile') = 'TRUE'

Store and retrieve geospatial imagery

Store and analyze geospatial networks

Store and manage 3D data

Supports all Geospatial Datatypes

Data

Locations

(points of interest)Networks

(roads, utilities)

Polygons

(admin, sales territories,

high risk zones)

Imagery

(satellite imagery) Topology

(data provider)

3D data type

(city models)

LIDAR Data Type

TIN Data Type

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Usage Types: Reports,

Search, Analysis

Reports – Crew & Order Locations

Query - View Work Order

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Now view work orders associated with the highlighted asset features.

Analysis - Asset Assessment Scoring

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Thematic Maps showing analytic information. This represents the current state of the Main Line infrastructure.

Spatial Database Services

Element 0

Element 1 (Hole)

P

1

P

2

P

3

P

4

P

5

P

6P

7

P

8

H

2

H

3

H

4

H

1

Geometry

Data Type

IndexingRtree

Query/AnalysisSelect, join, buffer, within distance,

nearest neighbor, intersection, union,

convex hull, centroid, ...

ROADS

RNAME ID TYPE LANES GEOMETRY

M40

M25

140

141

HWY

HWY

6

4

X Y

x1 y1

x2 y2

x3 y3

x4 y4

x5 y5

Abstract Data Type

Access: SQL (Structured Query Language)

Spatial Data in Tables

Road

ROAD_ID

1

2

3

SURFACE

Asphalt

Asphalt

Asphalt

NAME

Homestead

Bellomy

Santa Clara

LANES

4

2

2

LOCATION

Data type:

GEOMETRY

RASTER

NETWORK

TOPOLOGY

Spatial Operators

• Full range of spatial operators

• Implemented as functional extensions in SQL

• Spatial Relationship Operators

• InsideContains

• Touch Disjoint

• Covers Covered By

• EqualOverlap Boundary

• Distance Operators

• Nearest Neighbor

• Within Distance

Inside

Within Distance

Spatial Functions

• Database Server Side

Spatial Functions

• Union, Difference, Intersect, etc.

• Spatial Aggregates

• Buffer

• Point at bearing

• To_GML

• Geometry Validations

• Length

• Area

• Distance

• Etc…

Union

XOR

Intersect

Original

Difference

Buffer

Ma

in S

treet

A Spatial Query

Hilton

5 miles

St Thomas

Royal

George

SQL> SELECT H.Hospital_name

2> FROM Hospitals R,

3> Hotels H

4> WHERE R.Hospital_type =‘A&E’

5> AND H.Hotel_name = ‘HILTON’

6> AND

MDSYS.SDO_WITHIN_DISTANCE(

6> R.Location, H.Location,

7> ‘distance=5’) = ‘TRUE’;

Find all nearest hospitals within 5 miles of my hotel

Oracle FMW MapViewer

• Map rendering service: Server component

• Provides a comprehensive set of APIs:

• XML, Java, and AJAX-based

• Enables easy development of client viewers

• Enterprise solution for management of map content and

metadata

• Oracle Maps

• A map cache server

• Caches and serves pre-generated map image tiles for base map layers

• A feature of interest (FOI) server

• Renders dynamic geospatial features on top of base map layers

• An Ajax-based JavaScript mapping client library

• Fetches map tiles and FOI from the server

• Controls user interaction with maps and dynamic features.

• Map Builder

• Utility for creating and managing map metadata

• Create, modify, delete: Styles (colors, text, line, markers), Themes, Map

definitions

Development tools: JDeveloper ADF

JDeveloper ADF

Oracle Application Express

Oracle BI EE Answers

Some Oracle Spatial Partners

Geospatial Tool Providers

Specialty Systems Integrators Data Providers

NAVIGATE

“Spatial is not special”

• Location is a CORE element of enterprise data

• Location should be openly accessible to the spectrum

of platforms (GIS and non-GIS)

• Location should be a 1st class citizen of enterprise data

management

Try to imagine another core data type being managed

without the benefits of data management ‘best practices’

Some (Light) Further Reading …

Q U E S T I O N SQ U E S T I O N S

A N S W E R SA N S W E R S