Re: Ellipse Data Type? Best practices for elliptical data? [Oracle 9i Spatial]

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From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 16:19:11 GMT
Message-ID: <3Iqqc.11674$RM.10819@edtnps89>

C Wilks wrote:

> In my reading it appears that Oracle Spatial does not provide native
> support for ellipses. Am I wrong?

Are you trying to set up a new datum or coordinate system? Oracle does support ellipsoids used for that; in fact they have a large number of ellipsoids predefined, stored in the MDSYS schema.

There is a well documented process to create a new coordinate system in the user manual at http://docs.oracle.com ( go to Oracle9i database, then Spatial). This is also provided, in great detail, in the online 1440 minute 'Advanced Spatial' courses at http://education.oracle.com - sign up for Online Library.

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