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

Dimitri Rotow wrote:
>
> "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

Locator is part of Intermedia. AFAIK, Intermedia has been included with the core DB license since 8.0.x

Thus it may cost $0

And if he's got a support-update contract (possibly for other reasons), the upgrade will cost $0 as well. Received on Sat Nov 29 2003 - 00:50:23 CST