13 Business Directory (Yellow Pages) Support

Oracle Spatial provides support for OpenLS business directory (Yellow Pages, or YP) services.

Note:

Spatial business directory services are not supported in Oracle Autonomous Database both in Serverless and Dedicated deployments.

• Business Directory Concepts
  Business directory services provide lists of businesses in a given area and matching a specified name or category.
• Using the Business Directory Capabilities
  To use the Oracle Spatial business directory capabilities, you must use data provided by a business directory (YP) vendor.
• Data Structures for Business Directory Support
  After you acquire the business directory data and invoke the appropriate procedure to load it into the database, the procedure populates the following tables, all owned by the MDSYS schema, which are used for business directory support.