Re: Oracle Spatial Comments and/or advise

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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