Preface

Oracle Spatial Developer's Guide provides usage and reference information for indexing and storing spatial data and for developing spatial applications using Oracle Spatial.

Oracle Spatial is a foundation for the deployment of enterprise-wide spatial information systems, and Web-based and wireless location-based applications requiring complex spatial data management.

The Standard and Enterprise Editions of Oracle Database have the same basic features. However, some advanced features, such as parallel operations, are available only with the Enterprise Edition. For more information relevant when using spatial data with Standard Edition 2 (SE2), see the "Spatial and Graph Data" table in Oracle Database Licensing Information User Manual.

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who needs to store spatial data in an Oracle database.

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents:

• Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Developer's Guide

• Oracle Spatial Topology and Network Data Model Developer's Guide

• Oracle Spatial Map Visualization Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Language Reference

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Development Guide

• Oracle Database Error Messages - Spatial and Graph messages are in the range of 13000 to 13499.

• Oracle Database Performance Tuning Guide

• Oracle Database SQL Tuning Guide

• Oracle Database Utilities

• Oracle Database Data Cartridge Developer's Guide

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.