Preface

Oracle Spatial Map Visualization Developer’s Guide describes how to use the Oracle Spatial map visualization component (sometimes referred to as the map visualizer or the visualizer), a tool that renders maps showing different kinds of spatial data.

• Audience

• Related Documentation

• Acknowledgments

• Conventions

Audience

This document is intended primarily for programmers who develop applications that require maps to be drawn. You should understand Oracle AI Database concepts and the major concepts associated with XML, including DTDs. You should also be familiar with Oracle Spatial concepts, or at least have access to Oracle Spatial Developer’s Guide.

This document is not intended for end users of websites or client applications.

Related Documentation

For more information, see the following documents in Oracle AI Database documentation set:

• Oracle Spatial Developer’s Guide

• Oracle Spatial GeoRaster Developer’s Guide

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

• Oracle AI Database Concepts

• Oracle AI Database SQL Language Reference

Acknowledgments

This product includes color specifications and designs developed by Cynthia Brewer (http://colorbrewer.org/).

Use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles is subject to their copyright (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and terms of use. For more information, see http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_usage_policy.

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.