Google maps or Virtual Earth

Centigon has a nice new tool for integrating Google maps into Xcelsius - however it costs about $1K and it requires the expensive Google maps premier license. Anyone have ideas on other ways to use Google maps or Virtual Earth for showing data within Xcelsius? Thanks very much. User reaction is poor to my built in continent map with little hand placed icons over the countries in which we do business - can't blame them after using Google or Microsoft mapping products.

Are they looking for interactivity, or simply a better looking picture?
One suggestion I could offer is to use is XComponents. They are really a great free alternative:
http://xcomponents.blogspot.com/2008/07/xcelsius-www.html
I hope that helps!
Thanks,
Brian

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Hi all,
I need create new projection system in Oracle 10g R2 for Virtual Earth.
Currently I use coordinate system with srid 49155, but this differs in Y coordinate.
I tried create new projection system, but it produce same results as 49155.
I followed the recomendations on Re: user-defined cordinate system transformation problem
but I got same results as with srid 49155
I do this transformation:
select sdo_cs.transform(
SDO_GEOMETRY(
2001,
1000002,
SDO_POINT_TYPE(
(-700774.6752209459),
(7055443.457852785),
NULL),
NULL,
NULL),
8307)
from dual;
1000002 is my srid defined along Re: user-defined cordinate system transformation problem
my results:
SDO_CS.TRANSFORM(SDO_GEOMETRY(2001,1000002,SDO_POINT_TYPE((-700774.6752209459),(
SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, 8307, SDO_POINT_TYPE(-6.295166, 53.5737997, NULL), NULL, NULL
source coordinates: -700774.6752209 7055443.457852785
expected results confirmed with cs2cs util are
-6.295166 53.389881
(cs2cs command - cs2cs proj=merc a=6378137 b=6378137 lat_ts=0.0 lon_0=0.0 x_0=0.0 y_0=0 k=1.0 units=m nadgrids=@null +no_defs -f "%.6f")
I tried some modifications described here: SDO_CS.TRANSFORM_LAYER Works for Mercator Not Stereographic
- changing SOURCE_GEOG_SRID doesn't have any effect
- other changes I wasn't able to follow
- the original WKT is from http://www.spatialreference.org/ref/user/google-projection/
Here is modified version which is accepted by Oracle
PROJCS["WGS84 / Simple Mercator", GEOGCS[ "WGS 84",DATUM ["WGS_1984",SPHEROID ["WGS_1984", 6378137.0, 298.257223563]],
PRIMEM[ "Greenwich", 0.000000 ], UNIT ["Decimal Degree", 0.017453292519943295]],
     PROJECTION["Mercator"], PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin", 0.0], PARAMETER["central_meridian", 0.0],
     PARAMETER["scale_factor", 1.0], PARAMETER["false_easting", 0.0], PARAMETER["false_northing", 0.0],
     UNIT["Meter", 1.000000000000]]
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insert into sdo_coord_ref_system
SELECT 900913, a.coord_ref_sys_name, a.coord_ref_sys_kind,
a.coord_sys_id, a.datum_id, 10047,
2000026, a.projection_conv_id, a.cmpd_horiz_srid,
a.cmpd_vert_srid, a.information_source, a.data_source,
a.is_legacy, a.legacy_code, 'PROJCS["WGS84 / Simple Mercator", GEOGCS[ "WGS 84",                  DATUM ["WGS 84",                SPHEROID ["WGS 84",    6378137.0, 298.257223563]], PRIMEM[ "Greenwich", 0.000000 ], UNIT ["Decimal Degree", 0.017453292519943295]], PROJECTION["Mercator"], PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin", 0.0], PARAMETER["central_meridian", 0.0], PARAMETER["scale_factor", 1.0], PARAMETER["false_easting", 0.0], PARAMETER["false_northing", 0.0], UNIT["Meter", 1.000000000000]]', a.legacy_cs_bounds, a.is_valid, a.supports_sdo_geometry
FROM mdsys.sdo_coord_ref_sys a where srid=49155;
Where I do mistake? Is tehere something else I have to configure in Oracle?
Does anybody use Oracle with MS Virtual Earth/Google maps ....?
Thank you very much.
Regards.
Zdenek Vrablik

Here are commands I use to configure new srid:
(source : Re: user-defined cordinate system transformation problem
delete from sdo_coord_ref_system where srid = 1000002;
delete from sdo_coord_op_param_vals where coord_op_id = 1000002;
delete from sdo_coord_ops where coord_op_id = 1000002;
delete from sdo_coord_ref_system where srid = 1000003;
delete from sdo_datums where datum_id = 1000003;
delete from sdo_ellipsoids where ellipsoid_id = 1000003;
insert into MDSYS.SDO_ELLIPSOIDS (
ELLIPSOID_ID,
ELLIPSOID_NAME,
SEMI_MAJOR_AXIS,
UOM_ID,
INV_FLATTENING,
SEMI_MINOR_AXIS,
INFORMATION_SOURCE,
DATA_SOURCE,
IS_LEGACY,
LEGACY_CODE)
VALUES (
1000003,
'Sphere_ArcSDE',
6378137.0,
9001,
298.257223563,
NULL,
null,
null,
'FALSE',
null);
insert into MDSYS.SDO_DATUMS (
DATUM_ID,
DATUM_NAME,
DATUM_TYPE,
ELLIPSOID_ID,
PRIME_MERIDIAN_ID,
INFORMATION_SOURCE,
DATA_SOURCE,
SHIFT_X,
SHIFT_Y,
SHIFT_Z,
ROTATE_X,
ROTATE_Y,
ROTATE_Z,
SCALE_ADJUST,
IS_LEGACY,
LEGACY_CODE)
VALUES (
1000003,
'Sphere_ArcSDE',
'GEODETIC',
1000003,
8901,
null,
null,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
'FALSE',
NULL);
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_REF_SYSTEM (
SRID,
COORD_REF_SYS_NAME,
COORD_REF_SYS_KIND,
COORD_SYS_ID,
DATUM_ID,
SOURCE_GEOG_SRID,
PROJECTION_CONV_ID,
CMPD_HORIZ_SRID,
CMPD_VERT_SRID,
INFORMATION_SOURCE,
DATA_SOURCE,
IS_LEGACY,
LEGACY_CODE,
LEGACY_WKTEXT,
LEGACY_CS_BOUNDS)
VALUES (
1000003,
'Sphere_ArcSDE',
'GEOGRAPHIC2D',
6422,
1000003,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
null,
null,
'FALSE',
NULL,
NULL,
NULL);
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_OPS (
COORD_OP_ID,
COORD_OP_NAME,
COORD_OP_TYPE,
SOURCE_SRID,
TARGET_SRID,
COORD_TFM_VERSION,
COORD_OP_VARIANT,
COORD_OP_METHOD_ID,
UOM_ID_SOURCE_OFFSETS,
UOM_ID_TARGET_OFFSETS,
INFORMATION_SOURCE,
DATA_SOURCE,
SHOW_OPERATION,
IS_LEGACY,
LEGACY_CODE,
REVERSE_OP,
IS_IMPLEMENTED_FORWARD,
IS_IMPLEMENTED_REVERSE)
VALUES (
1000002,
'Mercator_Sphere_ArcSDE',
'CONVERSION',
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
9805,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
1,
'FALSE',
NULL,
1,
1,
1);
-- Now,let's configure the projection parameters:
-- 8823: Latitude_Of_Origin
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_OP_PARAM_VALS (
COORD_OP_ID,
COORD_OP_METHOD_ID,
PARAMETER_ID,
PARAMETER_VALUE,
PARAM_VALUE_FILE_REF,
UOM_ID)
VALUES (
1000002,
9805,
8823,
0.0,
NULL,
9102);
-- 8802: Central_Meridian
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_OP_PARAM_VALS (
COORD_OP_ID,
COORD_OP_METHOD_ID,
PARAMETER_ID,
PARAMETER_VALUE,
PARAM_VALUE_FILE_REF,
UOM_ID)
VALUES (
1000002,
9805,
8802,
0.0,
NULL,
9102);
-- 8806: False_Easting
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_OP_PARAM_VALS (
COORD_OP_ID,
COORD_OP_METHOD_ID,
PARAMETER_ID,
PARAMETER_VALUE,
PARAM_VALUE_FILE_REF,
UOM_ID)
VALUES (
1000002,
9805,
8806,
0.0,
NULL,
9001);
-- 8807: False_Northing
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_OP_PARAM_VALS (
COORD_OP_ID,
COORD_OP_METHOD_ID,
PARAMETER_ID,
PARAMETER_VALUE,
PARAM_VALUE_FILE_REF,
UOM_ID)
VALUES (
1000002,
9805,
8807,
0.0,
NULL,
9001);
insert into MDSYS.SDO_COORD_REF_SYSTEM (
SRID,
COORD_REF_SYS_NAME,
COORD_REF_SYS_KIND,
COORD_SYS_ID,
DATUM_ID,
SOURCE_GEOG_SRID,
PROJECTION_CONV_ID,
CMPD_HORIZ_SRID,
CMPD_VERT_SRID,
INFORMATION_SOURCE,
DATA_SOURCE,
IS_LEGACY,
LEGACY_CODE,
LEGACY_WKTEXT,
LEGACY_CS_BOUNDS,
GEOG_CRS_DATUM_ID)
VALUES (
1000002,
'Mercator_Sphere_ArcSDE',
'PROJECTED',
4530,
NULL,
1000003,
1000002,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
'FALSE',
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
1000003);

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have google released their maps API for people to run on their own servers
likely use of this would be a large company that wants to offer data which could be displayed in the same way as maps can.

yes i believe i know what an API is
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i was asking if they provide the platform so that other people can use it to provide data which is suitable for distribution in a similar way (I ovoided saying so that other people can provide their map data) because google earth/maps is rather comprehensive anyway)
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