Overview

Oracle Locator is a feature of Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition, Standard Edition One, and Enterprise Edition that provides core location functionality needed by most customer applications to support a variety of location-based services (LBS) and 3rd party GIS solutions.

Oracle Locator, provides native data management, query, and analysis of location data, accessible through standard SQL. It provides a foundation for deploying location-enabled business applications, partner-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and location-based services. Developers can extend existing Oracle-based tools and applications, since with Locator they can easily incorporate location information directly in their applications and services. This is possible because location data is fully integrated in the Oracle server itself. Geographic and location data are manipulated using the same semantics applied to the CHAR, DATE or INTEGER types that are familiar to all users of SQL. Oracle Locator eliminates the cost of separate, proprietary systems, and is supported by all leading GIS vendors. It also brings the industry-leading security, performance, scalability, and manageability of Oracle Database 10g to critical location assets.

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