Thursday, April 27. 2006

At the Oracle Spatial SIG - New Oracle Spatial Features Coming

Xavier Lopez of Oracle discussed some of the new features coming with Oracle 11 (beta release in the fall; production release in early 2007) at the Oracle Spatial Special Interest Group (SIG) in Tampa. They include:

Planned Features

Support for
** OGC OpenLS
** OGC Catalogue Service
** OGC WFS
** SOAP & XML interfaces for all web services
** MapViewer: AJAX Interface
Workspace Manager
** Oracle Label Security for versioned data
** Additional valid time enhancements – for long transactions

Planned Support for 3D

Server side data management
** 3D Coordinates – vertical datums & accurate height measurements
** 3D types
- Lines & points
- Solids (cuboids, pyramids)
- Surfaces (TIN)
- Points clouds and LIDAR data types
** Indexing and operator support
- Extend the Rtree index to support 3D
- SQL operators for 3d types
- SQL functions for basic 3d Analysis

More details can be found at the Oracle developers technical website: technet.oracle.com/products/spatial

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