This section describes major features that are new or changed since the previous release of MapViewer. This section groups the new features into MapViewer Core and Oracle Maps subsections.
This section describes features related to MapViewer generally, including the Map Builder Tool.
If you have an existing MapViewer Release 11g installation, and if you want to use its MapViewer configuration on Oracle Fusion Middleware Release 12.2.1, see Section 1.5, "Upgrading MapViewer".
When a tile layer has UTFGrid enabled, a data set named UTFGrid becomes a "companion" of an image tile, containing text information about feature properties in the image tile. This text information can be displayed by the updated Oracle Maps HTML5 API as a tooltip or info window in a web application.
For more information, see Section 2.3.11, "LRS (Linear Referencing System) Themes".
Support has been added to the MapViewer server so that you can now create a predefined theme based on the virtual mosaic functions in Oracle Spatial and Graph GeoRaster databases.
This section describes features for Oracle Maps, which is documented in Chapter 6.
The new Oracle Maps HTML5 JavaScript API lets you easily create dynamic tile layer based on ad hoc queries or any valid MapViewer XML map requests. These tiles are client-side only and do not require creation of metadata in a database.