HANA and geospatial data

Hi experts,
When will it be possible to load geospatial data into SAP HANA? Within Alliander we have two operational datastores in oracle and a BW datawarehouse. We want to combine the operational datastores and BW into one "in memory" evironment. One of the operational datastores containes geospatial data.
For the short term we can use Oracle exadata to combine the two operational datastores. For the midterm we would like to integrate the operational datastores and BW into HANA. This requires however that HANA can be loaded with geospatial data and HANA is able to handle geospatial data.
kind regards,
Frank Gubbels
Alliander (dutch utilities company)

Gregory, Can you please give some reference on how this is implemented, i would like to do the same. I have done it in Ipad with explorer(without fp3) but with FP3 on web ididnt get the interface as in the link you provided. Any help or links to related documentation is much appreciated.
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