Bay Area (CA) Regional Oracle Spatial SIG Meeting

For those of you in the Northern Califorina...
We are pleased to provide the agenda for the 1st Bay Area Regional Oracle Spatial SIG meeting. The meeting will feature Bay Area user presentations of Spatial systems operating in concert with diverse GIS technologies.
Date: Thursday November 3, 2005
Time: 12:30 - 4:30
Location:
San Mateo County Human Services Agency
Building B - Notre Dame Room
400 Harbor Blvd.
Belmont, CA
Agenda:
12:30 - 1:00 Registration and lunch
1:00 - 1:45 Welcome by San Mateo County and National SIG
1:45 - 2:15 San Mateo County: Asset Management
2:15 - 2:45 San Francisco: Infrastructure Management
2:45 - 3:00 Break and refreshments
3:00 - 3:30 Santa Clara Valley Water Dist: Watershed Administration
3:30 - 4:00 PG&E: Electric Utility Enterprise
4:00 - 4:30 Q&A, Feedback, Next steps
If you plan to attend and have not do so already...
** PLEASE RSVP to [email protected] **
Regards,
David Lapp
North American Oracle Spatial SIG

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Bay Area (CA) Regional Oracle Spatial SIG

The Bay Area (CA) Regional Oracle Spatial SIG will hold its first meeting on the afternoon of Thursday, November 3. The meeting will be held at a facility centrally located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The meeting will include:
Official kick-off of the Bay Area SIG
Several customer presentations on their Spatial systems
Great opportunities to network with Spatial colleagues
Lunch and refreshments will be providedI will update this post with details soon.
Please RSVP (update this post or email [email protected]) if you plan to attend.
Regards,
David Lapp
North American Oracle Spatial SIG

Try contacting http://www.nocoug.org
Regards:
Igor

Spatial SIG meeting at Oracle OpenWorld

For those attending OOW:
The North American Oracle Spatial SIG will hold a meeting in San Francisco (near the convention center) on Sunday 9/18 from 2:30-4:30. I'll update this thread with location and agenda info soon.
Regards,
David

The meeting location is:
Palace Hotel, French Parlor
2 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Four blocks north of Moscone Center at Market St.
The Agenda is:
2:00 2:30 Registration
2:30 2:40 Welcome address by Oracle
2:40 3:00 Address by IOUG representative
3:00 3:30 Presentation by Digital Globe
3:30 - 4:00 Presentation by Ireland Dept of Agriculture
4:00 - 4:30 Presentation by Utah DOT
4:30 4:45 Spatial SIG matters
4:45 6:30 Spatial get together with sponsored Cocktails and Hors dOeuvres
We need an accurate estimate of attendance, so...
IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND:
PLEASE UPDATE THIS THREAD OR EMAIL ME ([email protected])
Regards,
David Lapp
Communications Co-Chair
North American Oracle Spatial SIG

ORACLE SPATIAL CONFERENCES

Hi,
does anyone can inform me about Oracle Spatial Conferences or meetings
around the world for the next year?
Thanks
Akis

Oracle Spatial SIG Meeting in UK
http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=2823
Oracle Spatial User Conference, Texas USA
http://www.gita.org/events/annual/30/Oracle-callforpapers.htm
There's probably something on in Australia too similar to....
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/htdocs/au_spatial_forum/au_melbourne06_present.html

Australian Oracle Spatial Users Group Meeting - August 21, Melbourne

The 2nd Annual Australian Oracle Spatial Users Group Meeting is being held on Monday August 21st in Melbourne, Australia as part of the National GITA conference.
For the agenda go to:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/htdocs/au_spatial_forum/agenda_2006.html
Registration details are available at: http://www.gita.org.au/Portals/42/docs/OracleRego0602.pdf
If you have any queries, please contact Eve Kleiman at [email protected]

It looks like the link to the Program is broken.
I have included an abridged program below.
Hope to see you there.
Ross.
9:00am     Registration
9:30am     Welcome by Roland Slee, Oracle
10:00am     “Torrents of Terrabytes” – Graham Stickler, 1Spatial
10:45am     “A Developer's Perspective on Some New and Old Features of Oracle Spatial” – Bruce Blackwell, Oracle
11:30am     “How Oracle 10g spatial RDBMS was used to implement data Quality” - Zaffar Sadiq, SKM
12:00am     “National collaborative mapping past, present & future for PSMA Australia” – Michael Dixon, PSMA Australia
1:15pm     “Water Supply network modelling and asset management with an Oracle Spatial backend” – Mark Morgan, SpatialInfo
1:45pm     “Automated Layer Management - Experiences At Mid Coast Water” – Brendan Soustal, Mid Coast Water
2:15pm     “Gridding vs Simplification Unpacking Geometries Via SQL in Extracting Performance from High Density Data” – Simon Greener
3:00pm “Oracle 11g Spatial and beyond” – Tim Armitage, Oracle
3:45pm      Roundup

What countries are supported by the Oracle Spatial Geocoder (10g 2)?

hi @ all,
can anybody tell me which countries are supported (especially in east-europe[turkey,georgia,...]) ?
Denmark
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Regards,
greq

Hi Luc,
our data supplier deliver us the geodata as shape-files, so we migrate them in 'Oracle Spatial geocoding' tables.
For some countries (west europe: germany, france,... ) a geocoding-Parser already exists, but not for all countries. We get now some new data from turkey, ukraina, ..., but we don't know if a parser for this countries exists.
Regards,
Greq

Are Oracle spatial java libraries redistributable?

Hi,
Do you have any idea about Oracle's policy on distributing Oracle Spatial Java Class Libraries? Can our software that is targeted for commercial purpose distribute it?
We are using these SDO java libraries.
oracle_sdo.jar
sdoapi.jar
sdogr.jar
sdonm.jar
sdotopo.jar
sdoutl.jar
Also if redistribution is not allowed, can our users having Oracle DB license, copy these libraries from their Oracle DB machine to the machine where our product is installed.
Please guide us to appropriate web link on this topic. We could not get clear information by going through Oracle sites.
Thanks in advance,
Subrahmanyam.

Go to: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/spatial/index.html
Then click one of the downloads and you get the "Oracle Technology Network Development and Distribution License Terms". The second box covers the distribution license.
I'm sure that its covered in there .... Lots of Legal Mumbo-Jumbo ...... But it contains this line:
"You may also distribute the programs with your applications to your customers."
So it looks like "Yes" is the answer to your question !
Ro

Oracle Spatial usefulness as overlay of disaster areas

We have a custom app that plots out properties relative to the company. Now, the request is the ability to plot out the area of impact for disasters to identify those at risk (eg. hurricane path, flood, bombing(not so natural)). Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to attend the Oracle conference held in Florida or that may have given me plenty of info. However, even reviewing overviews and white-papers it seems rather vague.
Does anyone have suggestions on where to find the best or at least most useful info on Oracle Spatial as it would pertain to this? I also wonder how widely available such data for disaster paths/areas plotting will be.

user7673914 wrote:
We have a custom app that plots out properties relative to the company. Now, the request is the ability to plot out the area of impact for disasters to identify those at risk (eg. hurricane path, flood, bombing(not so natural)). Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to attend the Oracle conference held in Florida or that may have given me plenty of info. However, even reviewing overviews and white-papers it seems rather vague.
Does anyone have suggestions on where to find the best or at least most useful info on Oracle Spatial as it would pertain to this? I also wonder how widely available such data for disaster paths/areas plotting will be.Wrong Forum.
The best thing to do would be to bomb out of downloads to the forum-database-spatial and re-post the question there.
See: Spatial
Mark the questioned in this forum as answered so people dont keep telling you do do this.
I would suspect spatial has some propeties that you may be able to integrate with your existing app, but I would expect custom oding would be needed.
Rgds - bigdelboy

Oracle Spatial User Conference - GITA Conference Seattle

http://www.gita.org/events/annual/31/Oracle.asp
Oracle Spatial User Conference
Please note that online registration for this event is now closed.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Sheraton Seattle Hotel
1400 6th Avenue
Seattle, Washington USA
GITA invites you to attend the Oracle Spatial Users Conference. If you are currently a user, solutions provider, or systems integrator who depends upon Oracle’s spatial technologies, or if you want to learn why thousands of organizations use Oracle’s spatial database and application server capabilities, this is one event you won’t want to miss.
Learn about the latest Oracle geospatial technologies and the business and technical benefits they provide as users, solutions providers and Oracle executives share real world experience with the world's most widely used geospatial information technology platform.
More details will be posted soon—sign up for e-mail updates today!
ORACLE SPATIAL USER CONFERENCE AT GITA
Thursday, March 13, 2008—Seattle, Washington
Preliminary Agenda
Please check back for updates in the future. This agenda is subject to change.
Feb. 12 Update: Complete user sessions schedule and abstracts posted
Wednesday, March 12
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.      Oracle Spatial User Conference Reception — Cirrus Ballroom, Sheraton Seattle Hotel
Open to registered & paid user conference attendees only. Registration will be available at the door.
Thursday, March 13
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Oracle Spatial Special Interest Group Meeting
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.      Welcome – Oracle
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Maps in Business Solutions and Applications (Jayant Sharma)
* Fusion Middleware and BI
* OGC Web Services
* Work and Asset Management
* Mobile Workforce Management
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Break
11:00 a.m. – Noon
Oracle Spatial 11g – Technical Overview (Siva Ravada)
* What’s Better?
* What’s New?
* What Would You Like To See?
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Award Luncheon
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
TECHNICAL USE CASES – USER SESSIONS
Track A
Mapping & Business Intelligence Applications in Insurance and Retail
Audatex Insight: Claims Analytics with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle MapViewer
Yasser Kanoun, Principal Consultant, KPI Partners
Sally Suico, Audatex
Audatex Insight is a claim analytics application that presents automobile claims data in graphical and geographical views for management decision support.
This presentation describes how the integration of Oracle MapViewer with OBIEE dashboards allowed Audatex to display claim analytics geographically. For instance, a user can view the average cost of car repair variance, for a specific insurance company compared to whole industry, on US map at desired geographical levels.
CatPortal's LocWizard: An Innovative Approach to Mapping Insurance Risk Intelligence and Enabling Faster Decision Making
Guru Rao, President, Catastrophe Systems,
Aon Re Services, Inc.
Deepak Badoni, Vice President, Catastrophe Systems, Aon Re Services, Inc.
Instant access to policy and location level insurance data is one of the keys to faster decision making during and after a catastrophe event. Using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle MapViewer, Aon Re Global has developed an industry leading business intelligence and mapping tool that allows users to seamlessly navigate between reports and maps.
The design was driven entirely by their clients’ need to answer key questions about their exposures and losses to catastrophes. The system uses a blend of custom programming and out-of-the-box functionality to create an interface that allows users to create powerful visualizations and reports with a few mouse-clicks – which previously took days, even weeks of manual effort.
Unobtrusive Spatial Enablement of the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite at RL Polk
Steven Pierce, Principal, Johnston McLamb
Robert Murray, Technical Product Manager, RL Polk
This presentation will describe RL Polk’s approach to integrating Oracle MapViewer into Oracle Business Intelligence Suite using Oracle MapViewer's Non-Spatial Data Provider. The NSDP brought an elegant and efficient approach to integrating spatial and non-spatial data in real time.
Track B
Oracle Spatial in Public Sector
Maximizing the Value of Cuyahoga County-Wide GIS Using Oracle Spatial and Oracle Fusion Middleware
J. Kevin Kelley, Geospatial Information Officer, Cuyahoga County
G. Patrick Zhu, Software Systems Developer,Michael Baker Corporation
Discover how to leverage Oracle Spatial and Fusion Middleware technologies to solve current complex county-wide Geospatial needs. Cuyahoga is implementing a cutting-edge architecture to support Grid computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and event-driven architecture (EDA) that delivers unprecedented flexibility, performance and scalability.
Web Mapping with Microsoft Virtual Earth and Oracle 10g in U.S. EPA's Grant Tracking Systems
Trevor Quinn, Principal Developer, Systalex Corporation
This presentation details how a U.S. EPA enterprise web application was "geo-enabled" using Microsoft Virtual Earth and Oracle Application Express, and how the back-end Oracle 10g database was transformed into a spatial data engine for Virtual Earth. The presentation demonstrates how to make Oracle MapViewer maps available to commercial mapping APIs as cached tiles, and describes how to serve feature data directly from the database to Virtual Earth using AJAX and PL/SQL.
Automatic Vehicles Monitoring System at Cotral
Giovanni Corcione, Sales Consultant, Oracle Italy
Paolo Castagno, Principal Consultant, Oracle Italy
Diego Ponzi, Production Monitoring- Innovation Manager, Cotral SPA
The Automatic Vehicles Monitoring (AVM) system at Cotral SPA monitors a fleet of 1600 buses that take about 4600 trips per day on a "near real time" basis. Through GPRS/HTTP, buses send information such as position, events, alarms, timing, schedule to a central system for storage and analysis in the Spatial Data Infrastructure, based on Oracle Spatial, for bus monitoring, mapping, reporting and trip planning. With Oracle’s linear referencing, buses can be located and displayed in real time. The Oracle MapViewer browser front-end renders interactive maps with dynamic bus positions according to routes and bus stop positions. A demo will be shown.
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Break / Vendor Booths
3:30 – 5:15 p.m.
TECHNICAL USE CASES – USER SESSIONS
Track A
Utilities Case Studies
A Case Study: Re-engineering Cable Industry Business Processes with Spatial Database Technologies
Dennis Beck, President, Spatial Business Systems
This presentation highlights how a suite of customer-service related business applications are being deployed to change cable industry. An overview of the key design criteria will be presented along with highlights of the technical challenges that were faced in building a large-scale set of applications. Details of the applications will be highlighted as well as an overview of the technical implementation considerations and challenges. The presentation will conclude with a demonstration.
Web based geospatial business applications - embedding the CAD/GIS client
Philip O'Doherty, CEO, eSpatial Inc.
Jon Polay, VP Sales, eSpatial Inc.
This talk looks at the emerging drive towards development of geospatial GIS/CAD features within web enabled business applications. It has always been a goal to embed CAD like capabilities within business applications, but it is only recently that the required database and software infrastructure has made this possible. Leading Wireless Telecommunications Company, Verizon, will present its VEGA Application. This demo includes CAD data editing and manipulation features, seamlessly provided as an end to end process, all accessible within a pure web browser.
Foundations of the New Enterprise: Managing Critical Business Data using Oracle Spatial
Justin Lokitz, Director of Sales Engineering Organization Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) is among the top ten Water and Waste Water utilities in the United States. Early on, to support its business needs with regards to geospatial data, WSSC had built a system using software from many traditional GIS vendors that lacked integration and support for many vital business processes. In 2006 WSSC moved all enterprise data to Oracle Spatial (vector and raster data) and implemented the Leica Geosystems' ADE suite.
Modeling Utility Networks with Oracle Spatial Network Data Model
Peter Manskopf, Senior Consultant, GE Energy
The capabilities in Oracle Spatial allowed GE to build its next generation GIS client using Oracle Spatial as the data repository. The Oracle Spatial network data model provides the primitive spatial data structures required to model and meet the complex needs of utility customers. This presentation will give a technical overview how an electrical utility network can be modeled using the Oracle network topology model. The presentation will cover: How Oracle Spatial data structures can be used to model a connected utility network. How the SDO_NET API is used to perform different types of network tracing crucial to utilities. A demo will show the GE client performing network operations on Oracle Spatial.
     Track B
Oracle Spatial in Public Sector & Map Production
Using Oracle Spatial and MapViewer for Evaluation of Urban Area Development in Brazil
Andre Luis Carvalho da Motta e Silva, Stategical Projects Director, CODEPLAN
Gustavo Neves de Andrade Lemes, Consultant, Sete Serviços
Fernando Targa, Development Director, GEMPI
To meet information demand concerning income and job generation programs implemented by Brazil’s Federal District Economic Development Office (SDE), the Federal District Planning Company developed the Urban Areas Management System (SIGAU). Local areas are evaluated through performance indexes that take into account urban features, land plot, block and district, and analysis/simulation of a large volume of data from many governmental offices and systems. Thematic maps enable follow up and decision making on current programs. Oracle Spatial, GeoRaster and MapViewer provide a safe, high performance implementation platform. A demo will be shown.
Creation, Publication & Update of Maps out of Databases
Sebastien Lanoe, Product Marketing Manager, Lorienne SA
The production of maps out of GIS databases is often a challenging process. Lorienne innovates with a new map production environment for map creation, map publication and map updates from Oracle Spatial, with a focus on high quality, production cost, data integrity and diversification of map products across media. The case study with Tele Atlas data stored in Oracle Spatial will address the benefits, the level of quality, the efficiency of the production process and its dedicated user-friendly environment.
Reengineering Desktop Thick Workgroups into Web
Rich Enterprise Clients
Bryan Hall, Spatial Architect, L-3 Communications
Jeff Walawender, Senior Software Engineer, L-3 Communications
Cost cutting requires reengineering spatial solutions to directly address business requirements. But enterprise computing for spatial data has, with even "Web 2.0", required the user to lose the responsiveness and feedback that traditional desktop thick client GIS software has provided. We took a different approach in the re-engineering effort and concentrated on making it work as much like a traditional desktop thick client - while simplifying use, making editing more reliable, and actually speeding up rendering. All this, while only supporting one versioned Oracle Spatial database, and application tier for all users.
Complete eGovernment solution at City of Bolzano
Stefan Putzer, CreaForm
Giulio Lavoriero, Director of Engineering, CreaForm
The City of Bolzano, Italy has a unique, complete editing and publishing environment for geographical data. The Oracle Spatial-based enterprise editing environment supports import and export into geospatial tools from Bentley and ESRI, and network modeling from Oracle Spatial. Data is shared with GeoJAX, an easy-to-use geographical web browser that uses the Oracle MapViewer framework in combination with J2EE and AJAX for browsing Oracle Spatial data. This provides a flexible viewer supports spatial queries, and can be fully customized (style and functionality). Users can easily import any kind of geographical data from an ESRI file, edit it with a CAD precision functionality and make those data visible to anyone via the web in a very short time.
5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Closing Reception
Questions about the Oracle Spatial Users Conference? Contact us!
Phone: 303-337-0513 Fax: 303-337-1001 E-mail: [email protected]

Hi:
Some updates regarding the Oracle Spatial User Conference 2008.
1 - Presentations are now available at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/htdocs/spatial_conf_0803_idx.html
All submitted presentations have been posted except for the 3:30 track B slides. Those will be available in a day or two.
2 - Survey for Conference Attendees: If you attended the conference, please take a few minutes to complete the brief survey: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB227LQXQUMMD.
Take the survey by April 2 to be entered in a random drawing to receive a copy of the Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g book. We'll also give away 10 GITA shoulder bags.
Thanks to the speakers, sponsors, and participants for a great conference!

Oracle Spatial & Fusion MiddleWare MapViewer at Oracle OpenWorld

If you happen to be attended OOW next week you will see a very large presence for our products. hands on labs, sessions, demos ...
Look for us at Business Intelligence,Oracle Utilities, DigitalGlobe, Navteq, KPI Partners, and GE.
Hope to meet some of you at the demo booth.
thanks
Steve
Session ID      Session Title     Speaker(s)     Date/Time     Venue/Room      Presentation
11 Record(s) Found
S292934     IOUG Spatial SIG: Public Sector Geospatial Architecture built on the Oracle technology stack     Kevin Kelley, Cuyahoga County     Sunday 11/11/200710:00 AM - 11:30 AM     Moscone West2008 - L2
S291477     Building Google-Like Map-Based Applications with Oracle Spatial 11g, Oracle MapViewer, and Oracle JDeveloper Application Development Framework Components     Jean Ihm, Oracle; Ji Yang, Oracle     Monday 11/12/200712:30 PM - 1:30 PM     HiltonContinental Ballroom 4
S291480     Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Oracle Spatial 11g and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer     Steve Serra, Oracle; James Steiner, Oracle     Monday 11/12/200712:30 PM - 1:30 PM     Moscone South304
S291479     Building Map-Based Business Intelligence Dashboards, Using Oracle Spatial 11g, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, and Oracle MapViewer     David Lapp, Oracle; Jayant Sharma, Oracle     Monday 11/12/20073:15 PM - 4:15 PM     HiltonContinental Ballroom 4
S292299     Developing a Next-Generation Utility Network Management System with Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware      Robert Laudati, General Electric; James Steiner, Oracle     Monday 11/12/20074:45 PM - 5:45 PM     Westin SF Market StreetCity Room
S293026     Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management: Oracle Geospatial and Map Viewer--New Technology and a New Option      Rob Book, Oracle; Pat Caldwell, Oracle; Barry DeMartini, Oracle     Tuesday 11/13/20078:00 AM - 9:00 AM     Westin SF Market StreetFranciscan II
S291563     Developing 3-D City Models with Oracle Spatial 11g and Google Earth      Ravi Kothuri, Oracle; Xavier Lopez, Oracle     Tuesday 11/13/20073:15 PM - 4:15 PM     HiltonContinental Parlor 9
S291569     Building Secure Spatial Web Services, Using Oracle Spatial 11g and Oracle JDeveloper     Raja Chatterjee, Oracle; Jayant Sharma, Oracle     Tuesday 11/13/20074:45 PM - 5:45 PM     HiltonContinental Parlor 9
S291628     Bridging the IT/OT Gap in Utilities, Using Oracle Technology and Spatial Capabilities      Ivan Albertini, Oracle; Tim Armitage, Oracle Corpration Australia Pty Ltd     Tuesday 11/13/20074:45 PM - 5:45 PM     Westin SF Market StreetStanford
S291509     Oracle Spatial Best Practices and Tuning Tips for DBAs and Developers     Daniel Geringer, Oracle     Wednesday 11/14/200711:15 AM - 12:15 PM     Moscone South200 & 212
S292598     Practical Application: GIS Mapping and Visualizations Integrated with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition     Jerry Conrad, Oracle     Wednesday 11/14/200711:15 AM - 12:15 PM     Moscone West3022 - L3

for more updates to schedule check out the main Spatial page.
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial

How to use Oracle Spatial in this scenario

My scenario is like that:
I'm very new to Oracle Spatial
I'm building an application that will be based on asp.net.(I am
confident about .net)
As per my client requirement there are some kml file in one archive
folder.
Let me give an example:
say there is a kml file for region A.(latitude say 36 n to 40 n and
longitude is 110 w to 115 w) already in the archive folder.
Now if a new kml file(say A1.kml) that has been created by the user
and say its latitude and longitude are respectively 37n and 112w. As we clicked A.kml, google earth is opened up for the region A and as
we move our mouse cursor to more deeper more polygons are visible.
eventually polygon for A1.kml is also visible and definitely which is
inside the polygon for region A.
How can I achieve this thing by using oracle spatial 10g? ---(it's one of my senior's advice to use "oracle spatial 10g" in this scenario)
I'm not too sure whether I can able to make it clear to u about my
situation; plz xcuse me if I'm wasting ur valuable time.

Hi,
This link helped me a lot!
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rubio-mashup.html
Hope it could help you too.
Best regards,
Luiz

Very slow queries when using oracle spatial

Hi,
I am new to oracle, please help with me the problem that I am facing.
I am storing spatial regions inside the data base. The data is in very simple in form. That is each region is a small rectangle. The boundaries of rectangle touch each other but they do not overlap. Basically I am filling the 2D space with rectangles.
I use the SDO_FILTER query to find regions inside the data base that intersect with a line. The data base contains a single table. With one column of type SDO_GEOMETRY. And the table has around 25000 tuples.
The problem is that when the result of the query is large (70% of the tuples) that means there are many regions in the cache that intersect the line, the amount of time it takes is a lot more(6 times) than if I do the same without using the R Tree.
I can do it without using the R Tree because all my objects are rectangles. I store the the left bottom and the top right corner of the rectangle in the data base. And then use a simple range query.
Is this behaviour expected? should I use an R Tree index structure, or something else. I know that when the result is very large the R Tree search will have to search many sub trees to retrieve the data points. But should the performance be worse than a sequential scan?
Or will indexes only work for cases where the selectivity of the query is high?
Please reply I need help,
Thank you,
Nishant

Hi,
I am using the version of spatial that we get with Oracle9i Release 2 (9.2.0.1) or it could be
Oracle 9i release 2 (9.2.0.2).
I don't know how to check that.
Here I provide the create script, create index statement and a few sample data items that I insert into the data base.
Create Script:
create table out5d(
ID                          NUMBER(9),
PID NUMBER(9),
X                          NUMBER,
Y NUMBER,
L NUMBER,
PL NUMBER,
shape                          MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY,
HEIGHT                         NUMBER,
N                          NUMBER(9),
d0 NUMBER,
d1 NUMBER,
d2 NUMBER,
d3 NUMBER,
d4                         NUMBER,
D0_MAX NUMBER,
D1_MAX NUMBER,
D2_MAX NUMBER,
D3_MAX NUMBER,
D4_MAX NUMBER,
D0_MIN NUMBER,
D1_MIN NUMBER,
D2_MIN NUMBER,
D3_MIN NUMBER,
D4_MIN NUMBER);
alter table out5d
add constraint keyConstraint
primary key (ID);
Create Index:
INSERT INTO USER_SDO_GEOM_METADATA VALUES ('out5d' , 'shape' , MDSYS.SDO_DIM_ARRAY( MDSYS.SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('X', 0, 1, 0.0000001), MDSYS.SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('Y', 0, 1, 0.0000001) ), NULL);
CREATE INDEX out5d_rtree ON out5d(shape) INDEXTYPE IS MDSYS.SPATIAL_INDEX;
I changed the fan out to 50. Because I read in the spatial user guide that in case you are expecting a big output result you should increase the fan out to 50 or 60.
Also here is a sample data items that I inserted into the tables.
insert into out5d Values (25129,17556,0.804932,0.804993,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.298039,0.5,0.243137,0.222222,0.266667,0.298039,0.5,0.243137,0.222222,0.266667,0.298039,0.5,0.243137,0.222222,0.266667);
insert into out5d Values (25130,17556,0.804993,0.805054,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.290196,0.494681,0.235294,0.222222,0.266667,0.290196,0.494681,0.235294,0.222222,0.266667,0.290196,0.494681,0.235294,0.222222,0.266667);
insert into out5d Values (25131,19920,0.371094,0.371155,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.337255,0.734043,0.262745,0.239316,0.357576,0.337255,0.734043,0.262745,0.239316,0.357576,0.337255,0.734043,0.262745,0.239316,0.357576);
insert into out5d Values (25132,19920,0.371155,0.371216,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.345098,0.723404,0.270588,0.239316,0.357576,0.345098,0.723404,0.270588,0.239316,0.357576,0.345098,0.723404,0.270588,0.239316,0.357576);
insert into out5d Values (25133,19920,0.371216,0.371277,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.352941,0.734043,0.262745,0.247863,0.363636,0.352941,0.734043,0.262745,0.247863,0.363636,0.352941,0.734043,0.262745,0.247863,0.363636);
insert into out5d Values (25134,19920,0.371277,0.371338,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.345098,0.728723,0.262745,0.247863,0.363636,0.345098,0.728723,0.262745,0.247863,0.363636,0.345098,0.728723,0.262745,0.247863,0.363636);
insert into out5d Values (25135,17615,0.298706,0.298767,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.231373,1,0.262745,0.589744,0.606061,0.231373,1,0.262745,0.589744,0.606061,0.231373,1,0.262745,0.589744,0.606061);
insert into out5d Values (25136,17615,0.298767,0.298828,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.223529,1,0.270588,0.589744,0.606061,0.223529,1,0.270588,0.589744,0.606061,0.223529,1,0.270588,0.589744,0.606061);
insert into out5d Values (25137,17615,0.298828,0.298889,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.231373,1,0.262745,0.598291,0.618182,0.231373,1,0.262745,0.598291,0.618182,0.231373,1,0.262745,0.598291,0.618182);
insert into out5d Values (25138,17615,0.298889,0.29895,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.231373,1,0.270588,0.589744,0.612121,0.231373,1,0.270588,0.589744,0.612121,0.231373,1,0.270588,0.589744,0.612121);
insert into out5d Values (25139,19918,0.518127,0.518188,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.584314,1,0.152941,0.282051,0.412121,0.584314,1,0.152941,0.282051,0.412121,0.584314,1,0.152941,0.282051,0.412121);
insert into out5d Values (25140,19918,0.518188,0.51825,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.572549,1,0.160784,0.282051,0.418182,0.572549,1,0.160784,0.282051,0.418182,0.572549,1,0.160784,0.282051,0.418182);
insert into out5d Values (25141,19918,0.51825,0.518311,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.572549,0.994681,0.152941,0.282051,0.412121,0.572549,0.994681,0.152941,0.282051,0.412121,0.572549,0.994681,0.152941,0.282051,0.412121);
insert into out5d Values (25142,19918,0.518311,0.518372,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.576471,1,0.160784,0.282051,0.412121,0.576471,1,0.160784,0.282051,0.412121,0.576471,1,0.160784,0.282051,0.412121);
insert into out5d Values (25143,23411,0.193237,0.193298,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.211765,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.218182,0.211765,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.218182,0.211765,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.218182);
insert into out5d Values (25144,23411,0.193298,0.193359,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.219608,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.212121,0.219608,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.212121,0.219608,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.212121);
insert into out5d Values (25145,23411,0.193359,0.19342,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.219608,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.206061,0.219608,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.206061,0.219608,1,0.145098,0.196581,0.206061);
insert into out5d Values (25146,23411,0.19342,0.193481,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.219608,0.994681,0.152941,0.188034,0.218182,0.219608,0.994681,0.152941,0.188034,0.218182,0.219608,0.994681,0.152941,0.188034,0.218182);
insert into out5d Values (25147,23411,0.193481,0.193542,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.219608,1,0.152941,0.188034,0.212121,0.219608,1,0.152941,0.188034,0.212121,0.219608,1,0.152941,0.188034,0.212121);
insert into out5d Values (25148,10867,0.326904,0.326965,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.156863,1,0.290196,0.589744,0.612121,0.156863,1,0.290196,0.589744,0.612121,0.156863,1,0.290196,0.589744,0.612121);
insert into out5d Values (25149,10867,0.326965,0.327026,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.152941,1,0.298039,0.581197,0.606061,0.152941,1,0.298039,0.581197,0.606061,0.152941,1,0.298039,0.581197,0.606061);
insert into out5d Values (25150,10867,0.327026,0.327087,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.152941,1,0.290196,0.598291,0.618182,0.152941,1,0.290196,0.598291,0.618182,0.152941,1,0.290196,0.598291,0.618182);
insert into out5d Values (25151,10867,0.327087,0.327148,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.156863,1,0.305882,0.589744,0.612121,0.156863,1,0.305882,0.589744,0.612121,0.156863,1,0.305882,0.589744,0.612121);
insert into out5d Values (25152,10867,0.327148,0.327209,0,NULL,NULL,NULL,1,0.156863,1,0.298039,0.589744,0.612121,0.156863,1,0.298039,0.589744,0.612121,0.156863,1,0.298039,0.589744,0.612121);

Oracle Spatial User's Conference

Oracle Spatial User's Conference
Thursday, March 10, 2005 at the Colorado Convention Center
First Annual Oracle Spatial Users Conference and inaugural meeting of the North American Oracle Spatial Users Group
GITA invites you to attend the Oracle Spatial Users Conference.
If you are currently a user, solutions provider, or systems integrator who depends upon Oracle's spatial technologies, or if you want to learn why thousands of organizations use Oracle's spatial database, this is one event you won't want to miss.
Learn about the latest Oracle 10g geospatial technologies as Oracle executives detail the future direction of geospatial science, how the market is changing, and how technology breakthroughs will affect business and society.
Participants will enjoy a Wednesday night social courtesy of NAVTEQ, the digital roadmap provider; a full day of technical, business, and user sessions; and a one-year charter membership in the North American Oracle Spatial Users Group (North American attendees only), where you can share experiences, meet other experts, and provide input to Oracle and Oracle solution providers.
For additional information and to register, visit www.gita.org/events/annual/28/Oracle.html
GITA's Annual Conference
March 6-9, 2005 at the Colorado Convention Center
For more information about Annual Conference 28, visit GITA on the Web at gita.org.
The Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) is the premier professional association serving the global geospatial community. For nearly three decades, GITA has provided unbiased, world-class information on geospatial technologies through its conferences, seminars, chapter events, webcasts, forums, and publications. GITA's Annual Conference 28 is slated to be held just prior to the Oracle Spatial Users Conference, on March 6-9, 2005, at the Colorado Convention Center. This premier geospatial event will include a dozen Knowledge Immersion seminars, more than 80 technical paper presentations, user forums, panel discussions, networking events, and a 100,000-square-foot products and services exhibition.

Hi,
The schedule for this conference is now available. See:
http://www.gita.org/events/annual/28/Oracle.html
This is truly meant to be a worldwide event, and looking at the agenda shows there is an item for international attendees. Perhaps one of the topics could include how to bring a conference such as this to Europe.
There will be real users speaking about some of the largest spatial implementations, about topology, about georaster, location based services, network data model - truly this is the type of conference where you will leave with information and contacts to help you better do your job.
Here are just some of the titles for the sessions:
Oracle 10g Release 2 and Beyond: New Features and Future Directions for Oracle's Spatial Technologies
The Transformative Power of Geospatially-enabled Enterprise Data Integration: Benefits for Government, Business and Service-Oriented Applications
UK Ordnance Survey: The MAIA Project: Business Objectives and Technical Challenges in the Development of a Very Large Geospatial Database
U.S. Air Force: Integrating Secure Web and Mobile Applications into the Enterprise for the Management of Communications Infrastructure
United States Census: Spatial Data Storage and Topology in the Redesigned MAF/TIGER System
State of West Virginia: Implementing a Scalable, Secure 911 System
San Mateo County, California: Countywide Spatial Data Management Backbone
Alaska Department of Natural Resources: Integrating Location and Business Information Using Oracle Spatial in the Alaska Land Information Management System (Richard Clement, a frequent poster to this message board will be speaking)
State of Arkansas - GeoStor Project: Unified Vector and Raster Data Warehouse
British Telecom: Telco Legacy Network Inventory - Automated Capture and Integration using Oracle Spatial 10g Network Data Model
Hydro-Quebec: Live Monitoring of Environmental and Meterological Events affecting the Energy Transmission Network
Hutchinson 3G: The World's First and Largest 3G LBS Deployment
US Geological Survey: "Map what you have, Map what you don't" How USGS Integrates WMS (Web Mapping Services) into its Oracle MapViewer and Oracle Spatial Applications to Provide Rich Background Layers for Generated Maps
Telefonica: Geospatial Database for Operations and Engineering
Oh, and I will be there also, and might just have a Pro Oracle Spatial book or two to give away.

Can not deploy Oracle Spatial Routing Engine on Oracle Weblogic

I posted my question with Oracle Support, however they directed me to the oracle forums. I am hoping this problem can be resolved here. In any event I am getting the following stack trace (shown below). I am using Spatial Version 11.2.0.1.0, Map Viewer 11.1.1.5.1, and WebLogic 10.3.5.0, and data-set provided by Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g - Apress boos. I have successful in deploying Map Viewer, Geocoder Server, but not the Routing Server.
Below is the stack trace:
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:31:07 PM CST> <Error> <Deployer> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1321651867820> <BEA-149202> <Encountered an exception while attempting to commit the 1 task for the application 'routeserver'.>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:31:07 PM CST> <Warning> <Deployer> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1321651867826> <BEA-149004> <Failures were detected while initiating deploy task for application 'routeserver'.>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:31:07 PM CST> <Warning> <Deployer> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <[STANDBY] ExecuteThread: '2' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <> <1321651867826> <BEA-149078> <Stack trace for message 149004
weblogic.application.ModuleException: [HTTP:101216]Servlet: "RouteServerServlet" failed to preload on startup in Web application: "routeserver".
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at oracle.spatial.router.server.RouteServerServlet.init(RouteServerServlet.java:102)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:283)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:64)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:539)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1985)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1959)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1878)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1508)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:482)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:247)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:27)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:636)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:205)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:58)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:161)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:79)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:569)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:150)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:116)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:323)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:844)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1253)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:440)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:163)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:195)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:68)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1510)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:482)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:247)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:27)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:636)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:205)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:58)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:161)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:79)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:569)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:150)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:116)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:323)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:844)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1253)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:440)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:163)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:195)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:68)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
Caused By: java.lang.NullPointerException
     at oracle.spatial.router.server.RouteServerServlet.init(RouteServerServlet.java:102)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:283)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:64)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:539)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1985)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1959)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1878)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1508)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:482)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:247)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:27)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:636)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:205)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:58)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:161)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:79)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:569)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:150)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:116)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:323)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:844)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1253)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:440)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:163)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:195)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:68)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:31:07 PM CST> <Error> <Console> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <weblogic> <> <> <1321651867831> <BEA-240003> <Console encountered the following error weblogic.application.ModuleException: [HTTP:101216]Servlet: "RouteServerServlet" failed to preload on startup in Web application: "routeserver".
java.lang.NullPointerException
     at oracle.spatial.router.server.RouteServerServlet.init(RouteServerServlet.java:102)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:283)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:64)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:539)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1985)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1959)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1878)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1508)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:482)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:247)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:27)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:636)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:205)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:58)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:161)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:79)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:569)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:150)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:116)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:323)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:844)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1253)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:440)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:163)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:195)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:68)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
     at oracle.spatial.router.server.RouteServerServlet.init(RouteServerServlet.java:102)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:283)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:64)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:539)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1985)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1959)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1878)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1508)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:482)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:247)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:27)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:636)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:205)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:58)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:161)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:79)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:569)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:150)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:116)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:323)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:844)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1253)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:440)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:163)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:195)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:68)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1510)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.start(WebAppModule.java:482)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ScopedModuleDriver.start(ScopedModuleDriver.java:200)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleListenerInvoker.start(ModuleListenerInvoker.java:247)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver$3.next(ModuleStateDriver.java:425)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.ModuleStateDriver.start(ModuleStateDriver.java:119)
     at weblogic.application.internal.flow.StartModulesFlow.activate(StartModulesFlow.java:27)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$2.next(BaseDeployment.java:636)
     at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)
     at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.activate(BaseDeployment.java:205)
     at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.activate(EarDeployment.java:58)
     at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.activate(DeploymentStateChecker.java:161)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.activate(AppContainerInvoker.java:79)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.activate(AbstractOperation.java:569)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.activateDeployment(ActivateOperation.java:150)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.ActivateOperation.doCommit(ActivateOperation.java:116)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.operations.AbstractOperation.commit(AbstractOperation.java:323)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleDeploymentCommit(DeploymentManager.java:844)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.activateDeploymentList(DeploymentManager.java:1253)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentManager.handleCommit(DeploymentManager.java:440)
     at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.DeploymentServiceDispatcher.commit(DeploymentServiceDispatcher.java:163)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.doCommitCallback(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:195)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.access$100(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:13)
     at weblogic.deploy.service.internal.targetserver.DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer$2.run(DeploymentReceiverCallbackDeliverer.java:68)
     at weblogic.work.SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl$WorkAdapterImpl.run(SelfTuningWorkManagerImpl.java:528)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)
     at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException:
     at oracle.spatial.router.server.RouteServerServlet.init(RouteServerServlet.java:102)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletInitAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:283)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.createServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:64)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.createOneInstance(StubLifecycleHelper.java:58)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubLifecycleHelper.<init>(StubLifecycleHelper.java:48)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:539)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:1985)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.loadServletsOnStartup(WebAppServletContext.java:1959)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.preloadResources(WebAppServletContext.java:1878)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.start(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppModule.startContexts(WebAppModule.java:1508)
>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:31:07 PM CST> <Warning> <netuix> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '0' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <weblogic> <> <> <1321651867900> <BEA-423420> <Redirect is executed in begin or refresh action. Redirect url is /console/console.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=AppApplicationOverviewPage&AppApplicationOverviewPortlethandle=com.bea.console.handles.AppDeploymentHandle%28%22com.bea%3AName%3Drouteserver%2CType%3DAppDeployment%22%29.>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:31:34 PM CST> <Info> <Health> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <weblogic.GCMonitor> <<anonymous>> <> <> <1321651894879> <BEA-310002> <43% of the total memory in the server is free>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:57:36 PM CST> <Info> <Health> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <weblogic.GCMonitor> <<anonymous>> <> <> <1321653456622> <BEA-310002> <67% of the total memory in the server is free>
####<Nov 18, 2011 3:58:36 PM CST> <Info> <Health> <sa2apsp-spatialdev.sa2apsp.com> <AdminServer> <weblogic.GCMonitor> <<anonymous>> <> <> <1321653516623> <BEA-310002> <51% of the total memory in the server is free>

Below is the configuration of the routeserver.ear (web.xml):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>RouteServerServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>oracle.spatial.router.server.RouteServerServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

<init-param>
<param-name>routeserver_schema_jdbc_connect_string</param-name>
<param-value>jdbc:oracle:[email protected]:1521:SPATLDB</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>routeserver_schema_username</param-name>
<param-value>spatial</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>routeserver_schema_password</param-name>
<param-value>!spatial</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>routeserver_network_name</param-name>
<param-value>NDM_US</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>routeserver_schema_connection_cache_min_limit</param-name>
<param-value>3</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>routeserver_schema_connection_cache_max_limit</param-name>
<param-value>100</param-value>
</init-param>

<init-param>
<param-name>geocoder_type</param-name>
<param-value>httpclient</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>geocoder_match_mode</param-name>
<param-value>DEFAULT</param-value>
</init-param>

<init-param>
<param-name>geocoder_http_url</param-name>
<param-value>http://127.0.0.1:7001/geocoder</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>geocoder_http_proxy_host</param-name>
<param-value></param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>geocoder_http_proxy_port</param-name>
<param-value>-1</param-value>
</init-param>



<init-param>
<param-name>log_filename</param-name>
<param-value>/u01/app/routeserver/routeserver.ear/web.war/log/RouteServer.log</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>log_level</param-name>
<param-value>INFO</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>log_thread_name</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>log_time</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>

</init-param>

<init-param>
<param-name>max_speed_limit</param-name>
<param-value>34</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>local_road_threshold</param-name>
<param-value>25</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>highway_cost_multiplier</param-name>
<param-value>1.5</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>driving_side</param-name>
<param-value>R</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>language</param-name>
<param-value>English</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>long_ids</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>distance_function_type</param-name>
<param-value>geodetic</param-value>

</init-param>

<init-param>
<param-name>partition_cache_size_limit</param-name>
<param-value>125</param-value>

</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>partition_table_name</param-name>
<param-value>partition</param-value>

</init-param>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>RouteServerServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/routeserver</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>RouteServerServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/servlet/RouteServerServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>AdminPage</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/admin.jsp</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>rs_admin_role</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>Oracle RouteServer Administration</realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<description>To perform RouteServer administration.</description>
<role-name>rs_admin_role</role-name>
</security-role>
</web-app>

Loading shapefiles into Oracle Spatial

Fellow Oracle Spatiallers!
Currently we edit Oracle Spatial data by checking data out into a shapefile,
making our changes off-line, and reloading the shapefile back into Oracle.
Instead of using the Oracle Spatial supplied tool, we decided to purchase
a utility called the "Spatial Loader" from a company called Geometry Pty Ltd
(http://www.geometryit.com). There are a number of reasons why we decided to
go that way which might become evident from the command line parameters of
this utility:
Usage: Shp2Spt [Arguments] [Options]
OR
Usage: Java com.geometryit.spatialloader.oracle.AdvancedJavaSpatialTranslator [Arguments] [Options]
[Arguments] must specify these values:
-o create
type of operation to perform
create creates a new table, must not exist already
recreate creates a new table, may exist already
init drops existing table, creates a new one
append appends data onto existing table
-f <shape_file>
the shape file or project to translate
-l <table,column>
target table and column for the geometry data
-D <database>
target database name
-u <username>
username for RDBMS
-p <password>
password for RDBMS
[Options] values are not necessarily required:
-s <server_name>
name of server with database
-port <port_number>
the port to connect to on the server
-ufi <column_name>
specify the name of the UFI field (unique ID)
-seq <sequence_name>
specify the sequence to use for the spatial data unique IDs
-a none
attributes mode
none no attributes will be transferred
all all attribtues will be transfered as found
file= file containing lines of the form:
<shape_attribute><space/tab><rdbms_column>
where
<shape_attribute> selects the column to be output
<rdbms_column> name of the column in RDBMS
-srid <id>
specify the Spatial Reference ID for the spatial data
(this must be set to use Spatial Reference Transformations)
-i [<level>] or -i rtree
create an index for the generated table
the <level> parameter is an optional integer
representing the depth of the quadtree created
if rtree is specified, the index created will be
an rtree
-c <commit_interval>
number of rows to commit after
-t <tolerance>
tolerance value for metadata
-r none
used to determine number of decimal places to round vertices to
if you use the tolerance-parameter option, specify the -t parameter before -r
-igc
ignore geometry collections
-sgc
split geometry collections
-sgd f
split geometry direction [forward | reverse]
-update-metadata <true/false>
update the Oracle Spatial Metadata table after loading data
-validate <true/false>
perform Oracle Spatial validation after loading data
-v
verbose mode on
-h or -?
display this help message
The main things I like about this tool are:
1. One step (no conversion to sqlloader form followed by a call to the sqlloader).
2. The ability to round the coordinates of the shapes in the shapefile by applying
the XY tolerance values held in the SDO_GEOM_METADATA table.
This is quite important because our editing package - due to double/single precision
issues - can actually move coordinates but those movements are sub the precision of
the actual data. By rounding to the nominate precision we can detect situations where
no actual change to the shape (and its attributes) was made and thus not create superfluous
revisions within the database.
3. It will correctly re-wind the coordinates of the outer/inner shells of polygons. This is
important as ESRI shapefiles are agnostic on the winding order: an outer shell coordinates
can be listed in either clockwise or anti-clockwise order.
4. You can specify the primary key (UFI) column (numeric) and an Oracle Sequence number such
that each new shape loaded can have its UFI assigned from that sequence.
Because of this flexibility, and the excellent support (it is a purchasable product) from the
developers, I can heartily recommend this loader to fellow Spatiallers. It is worth every
penny I spent on it. Try the free version on their website and if, like me, you like it,
purchase it!
regards
Simon

Hi Shuan,
As part of the zip file created for the next training course to be posted for Oracle Spatial on OTN (within the next few weeks) there is a free (unsupported, undocumented) version of a shape to sdo converter. This should work, but it is unsupported. It will create a layer that then needs to be migrated into 8.1.6 format.
If you need it quite soon send email to [email protected] and I can get it to you.
Hope this helps,
dan

Bay Area (CA) Regional Oracle Spatial SIG Meeting

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