Re: Wanted: info on "Oracle GIS" ???

In article <3ijofg$8ul_at_ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> sendil_at_ix.netcom.com (Sendil Nathan) writes:
>From: sendil_at_ix.netcom.com (Sendil Nathan)
>Subject: Re: Wanted: info on "Oracle GIS" ???
>Date: 24 Feb 1995 04:48:48 GMT
 

>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>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.

Let's see. GeoVision is a GIS package that uses Oracle to store all of its information. I have not seen this package myself. System 9 is another package like this, and I would say it has become the de-facto corporate standard where i work. Several departments use it. Apparently the current version uses a proprietary database, but can link its data into oracle. I have heard that they are working on making the next version use oracle as the native database. Intergraph solutions I have seen do not store *all* the information in the database, but store much of it in CAD type files. I have not seen every intergraph package but this is true for the ones i have seen.

Of course, each of these packages have their strengths and weaknesses.

Ken Received on Fri Feb 24 1995 - 19:44:08 CET