[mapguide-users] New Oracle FDO provider

[Ross Smith]

"Hobbled" - it is a full functioning version of the Oracle DBMS with tons of
spatial capabilities (the entire locator engine in fact with a few Oracle
spatial gems hidden as well - we have discovered a few that are available).
Also, Oracle is the world's largest database vendor and I read recently (in
an IDC report - I think it was) that something like 80-90% of the world's
spatial data that are stored in a DBMS are stored in Oracle.
 
Oracle XE includes the ability to do spatial queries, tons of spatial data
manipulation procedures such as simplifying features, manipulating data in
just about every possible way, the ability to do coordinate transformations,
store and manipulate linear referencing data (does postGIS come with LRS
capabilities?) and best of all it is completely scalable into the entire
Oracle suite (since it is a version of the Oracle Standard platform - with
views, triggers, stored procedures, etc.).  Check it out for yourself
(http://www.oracle.com/technology/xe/index.html) - the GUI does not offer
the true power - the command line tools are where the power lies.  I am not
an Oracle salesman, just someone who wants to build a scalable system that
can open the most doors cost effectively.
 
Do not get me wrong I am a huge open source advocate (particularly MapGuide)
but the spatial vendors still do not play well with databases (and each
other) and Oracle seems to be the best common denominator - I can use my
GeoMedia Pro license to connect to Oracle XE, I would be able to use
Autodesk Map ad MapGuide if some one will provide the FDO (free or
otherwise), ESRI of course is a lost cause (and out of my equation) because
it does not have SDE bolted on top (and the direct connect is a joke) but I
am looking for an open system with flexibility in the tools I use.  
 
And to me MapGuide is a phenomenal tool and Oracle XE can allow me the
flexibility to store my CAD data or GIS data (using Autodesk Map and
MapGuide if a FDO existed) and use my GIS tools such as GeoMedia and
possibly even MapInfo.
 
Just my two cents in four paragraphs... 
 
 

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From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 7:47 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] New Oracle FDO provider


When the PostGIS FDO provider is out, I think you should look at that. Why
use a hobbled DB like XE when you can have a real one? 

P 

On 8-Sep-06, at 6:00 PM, Ross Smith wrote:




Any thoughts on providing support for Oracle XE? And you mention on your web
site that you may open source the FDO connector. What would you required
from the community to do so?

Does anyone else know of any Oracle XE FDOs that exist? I have a tremendous
amount of interest in Oracle XE and MapGuide to build enterprise GISes.




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From: Traian Stanev [mailto:traian.stanev at autodesk.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 9:17 AM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] New Oracle FDO provider





After a quick try... I got a succesful connection in MG Studio, but when
trying to create a layer, I get no feature classes listed, so either the
tables I have in the Oracle server are all weird or something else is going
on... I'll try to call the provider directly from a test program to see if I
get any data back.



Traian




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From: Haris Kurtagic [mailto:haris at sl-king.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 7:59 PM
To: users at mapguide.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapguide-users] New Oracle FDO provider

Hi ,

I am working on new FDO provider for Oracle.

You can read more about it and download it here:
<http://www.sl-king.com/fdooracle> www.sl-king.com/fdooracle



It is not open source project yet, but it is free to use.



I would appreciate if you try it and if you give me some feedback.



Regards,

Haris Kurtagic









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