Re: Wanted: info on "Oracle GIS" ???
Date: 24 Feb 1995 04:48:48 GMT
Message-ID: <3ijofg$8ul_at_ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
In <793568930snz_at_swlogica.demon.co.uk> stockb_at_swlogica.demon.co.uk (Bill Stock) writes:
>
>In article <1995Feb20.084239.1_at_ccc.govt.nz> andrew_at_ccc.govt.nz writes:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Last week I posted the following to comp.infosystems.gis:
>>
>> : Just out of idle curiosity, is anyone out there working on a
>> : corporate-type GIS system where *all* the data ( spatial and
aspatial
>> : ) is held in an industry-standard RDBMS ( e.g. Oracle ) and is
>> : accessed through a MS Windows front-end via *standard* database
>> : connectivity tools ( e.g. ODBC ) ????
>>
>> and got the following reply:
>>
>> > From my (old) information, Oracle itself is developing some or all
of
>> > what you want at their Ottawa research site ...
>>
>> Does anyone out there know anything about this ? Anyone from Oracle
>> prepared to comment ?
>>
>> Cheers, Andrew.
>>
>>
>> Andrew Groom Phone: (03) 3711 862
>> GIS Business analyst, MIS Fax: (03) 3711 789
>> Christchurch City Council Email: andrew_at_ccc.govt.nz
>> P.O. Box 237, Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND
>>
>>
>Intergraph used to sell GIS software which I think would access data
>from Oracle. The hardware grpahics edit stations was more drawing
office
>than desktop, these were running UNIX and motif/custom software.
>But it was possible also to enter data using forms to the Oracle DB.
>
>Laserscan at Cambridge also did a GIS Metropolis which worked I think
under
>Motif storing data in an Oracle database.
>
>
>--
>Bill Stock
>
ESRI's ARC Info, ARC View etc maybe a good bet. A bit expensive I heard, but classy.
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