4 Oracle Maps

Oracle Maps is the name for a suite of technologies for developing high-performance interactive web-based mapping applications.

Oracle Maps is included with the map visualization component.

The map visualization component allows users who have a valid license and comply with map tile providers’ Terms of Use to display map tiles from those licensed services.

• Oracle Maps JavaScript API
  The Oracle Maps JavaScript client is a browser-based map visualization engine that works on top of the map tile server and that uses HTML5 technology.
• Developing Oracle Maps Applications
  This topic describes how to develop Oracle Maps applications.
• Using Google Maps
  Applications can display Google Maps tiles as a built-in map tile layer, by creating and adding to the map window an instance of MVGoogleTileLayer .
• Transforming Data to a Spherical Mercator Coordinate System
  Popular online map services such as Google Maps use a spherical Mercator projection for their maps.
• Using Dynamic Tile Layers
  A dynamic tile layer is a tile layer defined on the client side.