Re: Find a location given approximate latitude and longitude near the location

"Hans Forbrich" <forbrich_at_bad_address..net> wrote in message news:3FC3ABD3.9D67B6A4_at_bad_address..net...
> Dimitri Rotow wrote:
> >
> >
> > There are lots of nuances, such as finding the nearest neighbor of
various
> > candidates that may fall within the allowed epsilon. My advice is that
it
> > would be a lot faster to simply buy a tool that does all this for you.
If
> > you are doing this on a one-time basis, consider Manifold. At $245 it
will
> > do all this for you and allow you to use elementary spatial SQL. See
> > http://www.manifold.net
> >
>
> Not quite sure how this improves on using 'SDO_NN()' that's available
> free in Oracle9i Standard as well as Enterprise

Probably by costing a few thousand dollars less than Oracle9i Standard or Enterprise, if he doesn't have it in the Oracle version he has at hand. I don't know what the Oracle cost is to upgrade Oracle 8.1.7.4 to 9i, but I bet it costs a lot more than the $245 cost of Manifold... but then, that's just a guess. Anyone know the real price?

Cheers,

Dimitri Received on Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:35:52 CST