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Re: question on spatial data

From: Chris Baker <cbaker_at_visual.com>
Date: 1997/04/01
Message-ID: <01bc3ee2$141ff160$2d5a6cce@cbaker.visual.com>#1/1

Look at Vision International's Spatial Query Server. Supports spheres.

http://www.autometric.com/AUTO/Vision/

Chris

John Thompson <johnt_at_domino.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in article <5heo7t$ib1_at_netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>...
> I am working on a project involving radar mapping of the earth's land
> surfaces. It would be very useful to us to be able to treat areas of
> the earth's surface as data items. The scale is such that we cannot
> treat these areas as flat - they must be surfaces of a sphere. We would
> like to be able to do such things as find the overlap of 2 or more areas,
> what points lie within an area, etc. Does anyone have any knowledge or
> experience as to whether Oracle's spatial data option and/or 3rd party
> software would handle this?
>
> Thanks for any info
>
> John Thompson
>
> P.S. our news server is flaky so email instead/in addition to a posting
> would be appreciated.
>
>
> --
> John Thompson MS 300-235
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>
Received on Tue Apr 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CST

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