GeoBusiness AWARD 2009

The GeoBusiness AWARD 2009 has been introduced at the CEBIT 2009 (Video in German):



Extrakt from that page:

Der GeoBusiness AWARD …
… ist der Preis der Kommission für Geoinformationswirtschaft des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums.

Prämiert werden …
… Geschäftsideen oder Prozessverbesserungen, für deren Umsetzung ortsgebundene (georeferenzierte) Informationen der öffentlichen Hand eingesetzt wurden.

The AWARD is worth € 10.000 and combined with large PR-Package incl. vidoes about the solutions.
Its focussed on German innovators only - sorry ! (I understood).

More at http://www.geobusinessaward.org/ .

Whoever has developed a smart application based an Oracle Maps (;-) may apply for an award ! The deadline is May 31st, 2009

Good luck !

JDeveloper/ADF visualisation components - online demos

In an earlier thread I mentioned the JDeveloper Visualisation components already.

Now there is a Demo available to get an idea about the components incl. the map component.
Link to the Oracle REA Rich Enterprise Applications functionality of JDev ADf can be found here.



The Table of contents for the maps functions:



How to develop documentation here.

Oracle Maps in "Who stole Mark Drake?" Video

An enjoyable Oracle video illustrates Spatial/Mapviewer/Oracle Maps usage in an exciting use case:



The flash-video can be viewed online or downloaded for giving an insight into the use of various Oracle products across Fusion Middleware.
If you go to "Fraud Unit in Action" , the mapviewer in connection with BI part can be accessed directly.
Enjoy it !

Mapviewer 11g new features and misc. tipps

We are looking forward to the new Mapviewer/Oracle Maps features in 11g !!
Don't ask me, when it will come !! It'l come....
Oracle Maps Developer "LJ" is showing some new functions in his BLOG already !

Namely: Heat Maps



or the "Microscope" - a draggable magnifying glas:



For more info and explanations look at LJ's BLOG directly.

You'll find some interesting tipps on the following as well:

Displaying map tiles in your Java Swing app
APEX, Oracle Maps and Secure Mapping
Displaying labels on your FOI objects
MapViewer for WebLogic kit updated
Generating map legends
Creating a web map from raster image files
Official MapViewer white paper: a primer
World mercator projection used by Oracle's eLocation site
How to read the logs generated by MapViewer
Oracle Maps and APEX
GeoRSS support in Oracle Maps
Cross-domain Oracle Maps scripting
Getting more diagnostic info out of MapViewer
eLocation: a public show case of MapViewer

Not everybody might come across LJ's tipps/BLOG - so I better have the topics mentioned here as well!
Thanks LJ !!

Oracle Maps uses "Openstreetmap" as WMS

Thanks to the analysis work and "hacking" done by my colleague Carsten Czarski I am pleased to present the Openstreetmap solution (free maps...!!) being integrated in Oracle Maps utilising an Openstreetmap WMS service provided by the WHEREGROUP.

In the Oracle Mapviewer it looks like:



Here are some screenshots of the setup of the "Map Tile Layer Definition":



The "cutted" url is : http://osm.wheregroup.com/cgi-bin/mapserv

you will have to use SRID 4326 - I used 10 zoom-levels:



In Oracle Application Express with Oracle Maps it looks like:

A tutorial (in German) can be found on the German APEX Community site.

"Firewall challenges":
The OSM-server resides in the Internet. If your MapViewer Installation is behind a firewall, you'll  need to define your Proxy-Server... this has to be done in the file
"MapViewerConfig.xml" or here:
MapViewer Admin GUI --> Configuration --> search for "Web Proxy Settings"

And the "check-box" for "HTTP Proxy required" has to be set in the MapTileLayer configuration

Geocubes - what is that ?

As the number of FOI's do increase steadily, it makes sense to "cluster" these instead of pointing to a cloud of FOI's.

Last week I came across this new feature called GEOCUBES developed by a Berlin (Germany) located company named Skilldeal.com.

Til end of Feb 2009 the Code (Javascript API, JS API Reference, client library PHP ) is free - I haven't had the time to test it - feel free to test it on your own !

(28.01.2009) One more comment:
I think there is no need for the GEOCUBES functionality in Oracle Maps, as we do influence the appearance of the FOI's according to the Zoom-Levels. In Mapviewer and Oracle Maps we can setup the layers in relation to a Zoom-Level.
This is different in Google Maps: there you do see ALL FOI's at all Zoom-Levels, and therefore it makes sense to use GEOCUBES.

New Oracle OTN Discussion Forum on Mapviewer

Since November 12th 2008 there is a new OTN Discussion Forum on Mapviewer and Oracle Maps.
Pls be informed accordingly.

FOI numbering + label in LJ's new BLOG - and more

I like to point you to the new BLOG of LJ QIAN - Oracle Maps Software-Developer.
Especially, as in his latest thread he describes how to "Number" FOI's in order to easily crossreference the numbers with the numbers of a list aside the map:



As well I found very useful infos and How To's about
- Oracle Maps/Mapviewer within a SWING application (with source code!)
- How to put/edit labels/text aside an FOI
- Do a "secure" Mapping by means of APEX, AJAX and Oracle Maps
- How to read Logs generated by Mapviewer
- a Primer on Oracle Maps/Mapviewer
- GeoRSS function using FLICKR feed...
and even more.

Bernhard

Mapviewer 10.1.3.3 Quickstart Kit for Weblogic Server (WLS) on OTN for Download

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/mapviewer/htdocs/winsoft.html

NEW: Spatial und LBS White Paper (August 2008)

A new Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial 11g Best Practices Whitepaper (16 pages) has been published. Just to let you know !
The TOC looks as follows:
- General Best Practices
- Oracle patchsets
- Data modeling
- Metadata, tolerance and coordinate systems
- Transportable tablespace with spatial data and spatial indexes
- Data loading
- Point data in the SDO_POINT attribute of the SDO_GEOMETRY object
- Geometry validation
- Spatial index creation
- Partitioned local spatial indexes
- Spatial Queries
- Application considerations ArcGIS
- DBTUNE file
- Important notes for 3D data
- Creating a spatial index with an ESRI client tool
- Primary key for ArcSDE
- Registration of spatial layers not created by ESRI client tools
- Deregistering layers from ArcSDE
- Performance with ESRI client tools