Modeling Spheres, Cones, Cylinders in Oracle Spatial

Hi,
I'm new to Oracle Spatial and have a fairly basic question.
How do you model Spheres, Cones, Cylinders as objects (3-d obviously) in Oracle Spatial? I know a sphere can normally be modeled using a point and a radius but is that something you store as an SDO_GEOMETRY item using any 3-d gtypes (like maybe 3008 to get volume?) Also, can you then embed another object (like a cylinder) inside the sphere and deduct its volume from the sphere's volume?
Thanks!

Hi,-
You need to define each face of your sphere,cone or cylinder by
approximating their round curved surfaces to planar surfaces.
We donot support curved surfaces(arcs etc) in 3D.
In other words, we only allow planar surfaces for 3D geometries in 11g.
You can find the volume of 3D sdo_geometry using our volume function.
You can also embed another solid into another solid and our volume function
does subtract the inner volume by recognizing the embedded inner solid.
We have some validation rules though while defining the inner solid.
SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_GEOMETRY_WITH_CONTEXT and
SDO_GEOM.VALIDATE_LAYER_WITH_CONTEXT validate geometries in accordance with
rules defined by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) via the Simple Feature Specification for
SQL. You can find those rules in Oracle Spatial User Guide.
We also have an OTN white paper for the validation rules:
Oracle Database 11g Validation Rules and Algorithms for
Three-Dimensional Geometries in Oracle An Oracle Technical White Paper
June 2007.
Please let us know if you have further questions.
Thanks

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Look into the following.
1. Book - Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g by r. Kothuri, A. Godfrind, E. Beinat. This book provides a nice introduction on Oracle Spatial concepts and have examples.
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Oracle Spatial User Conference
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On Monday I received the Oracle Spatial book and I would like to post a topic about it. First of all I would like to congratulate the authors for their huge effort doing this excellent book. I think it will be very useful to the people that works with Spatial.
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Hi Juan
Thanks for purchasing our book, and thanks also for the kind words.
I think I know what that problem is.
The application uses the network API. That API needs a database connection for the initial loading of the network. The connection used is provided by OC4J. This is done in the following code lines in the SampleApplication.jsp:
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Thank you very much.....got it.
I know it isn't your gig, so I am not asking for a solution, just looking to know where I might have to go to get one. If buying SR's on meta link is going to solve this for me, then I am all for it, just let me know where the expertise can be found, I have been battling this overall set up now for too long, I need someone who really knows this stuff so I can get on with making use of it in industry....thanks....
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From oc4j on an attempted stand-alone install;
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Hi,
I'm new to this oracle spatial.I want to use relational model of oracle spatial.In that I read that I need to create 4 tables(layer,dim,index,geom).And then I've to populate index table using sdo_admin.populate_index.But when I do this I'm getting error as "No data found".Actually I inserted one row in each table.Where can I find some examples regarding oracle spatial(relational model,not object relational) ?In technet.oracle.com/product/spatial I found samples but they use object relational model.
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Hi,
Does anyone working with relational model of spatial ? If so please share some info .What is the better approach in creating SDOGEOM table .I know that I can create a table with all the coordinates as sepearte columns,when creating a polygon.Or I can use only x1,y1,x2,y2 columns and repeate them.Like
GID x1 y1 x2 y2
1 1 2 3 4
1 3 4 5 6
1 5 6 7 8
1 7 8 1 2
Some thing like the above.
GID x1 y1 x2 y2 x3 y3 x4 y4 x1 y1
What is the better approach ?Can any one help me ?
TIA,
KKR

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.

Oracle Spatial Object

I have more than 2 geographical points In USA saved in oracle DB using geometry object...
are there any function in Oracle Spatial Object that gives me the shortest route to go through all theses geographical points

You would need to create a network with all of your point geometries as nodes and lines as links. See...
Oracle® Spatial Topology and Network Data Models Developer's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2) Part II
Once you do that you can use it to solve your problem (traveling salesman).

Representing Smallworld network in Oracle Spatial

I'm trying to determine the network capabilities of Oracle Spatial. We are discussing whether it has equivalent capbilities as the Smallworld data model.
Is there currently a translator that can convert Smallworld data into Oracle Spatial, without loss of functionality.
Can anyone give me any info on this?
Thanks

Oracle Spatial NDM is a means to persist graphs and perform graphical analysis like shortest path, minimum spanning tree etc.
It isn't an application or domain specific solution.
You would use NDM to build applications such as vehicle routing, trace out in an electrical network etc.
The NDM white paper on OTN describes this in further detail.
www.oracle.com/technology/products/spatial/index.html
Oracle Database 10g. Building GIS Applications Using the Oracle Spatial Network Data ModelTechnical White Paper (PDF)
Send me email if you'd like follow on discussions.
Jayant Sharma
(firstname.lastname at oracle)

Keep Oracle Spatial data in Coherence Caches?

Can I keep Oracle Spatial data in Coherence Caches?

You can store the Oracle Spatial data in Coherence caches. But creating Spatial indexes in Coherence neeeds too much effort, I guess. How do you create the Spatial geocoding package, map symbols, map styling rules and Spatial network model?
Edited by: junez on 07-Jan-2010 12:24

Oracle Spatial Java Class Library Download?

Hello,
where can I download the Oracle Spatial Java Class Library? I installed OracleXE which can handle SDO_GEOMETRY types and now need the java library for programming against the database.
greetings
Peter

If you mean by samples that show you how to manipulate Geometry types than you can find this tutorial using java and connecting to your DB via Oracle Spatial Network Data Model (NDM) https://spatial.samplecode.oracle.com/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=0Zl7oV
My personal experience, it would be good idea to have oracle 11g Release 2 installed.
It shows you different ways to query spatial data. You might also be interested in this documentation on oracle Topology and NDM Developers guide: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28399.pdf

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