Re: MI Oracle spatial release 8.1.6 support in MapInfo 5.5 and 6.0

[Dany Bouchard]

James,   Thanks for your reply. In fact, I have found out that MapInfo 5.5 does not support Oracle 8.1.6. On the other hand, after doing some testing today, MI 6.0 supports the primitive geometry of oracle spatial 8.1.6 quite well. Easy loader 6.0 is working really well with MI 6.0. On the other hand it will still be quite a struggle to try to support displaying in MapInfo of the 8i additional geometries such as compound polygons.   Regards,   Dany Bouchard DBx Geomatics 38 de l'Orbite Hull, Qu�bec Canada J9A 3C7 T�l�phone/Telephone: 819.743.3870 T�l�copieur/Fax: 819.775.3264 Courrier �lectronique/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page Web/Web site: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/home.asp Vitrine technologique SVG / SVG Technology Preview: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg.asp ----- Original Message ----- From: James Koennicke To: 'Dany Bouchard' Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 1:11 PM Subject: RE: MI Oracle spatial release 8.1.6 support in MapInfo 5.5 and 6.0 Dany,   It seems that 5.5 does not support 8.1.6 at all as it does not read the new SDO_GEOMETRY format. I am not certain what limitations are placed on the new format by 6.0. Hope this helps.   James F. Koennicke Engineer/Analyst VISTA Information Technologies, Inc. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (703) 561-4132      -----Original Message----- From: Dany Bouchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MI Oracle spatial release 8.1.6 support in MapInfo 5.5 and 6.0   Hi All, I am currently testing MapInfo 5.5 and 6.0 with Oracle 8.1.6 for a project feasibility study and have a few questions:   I believe MapInfo Professional 6.0 does not support all of the additional geometry types of the object-relational model in Oracle 8.1.6 ? (Oracle 8.1.6 supports the following geometries: Rectangles, Circles, Arc Line Strings, Arc Polygon, Compound Polygon and Compound LineString) Is it the case ? For example, is it possible to look at ways to implement reading/display of a compound polygon from an Oracle 8i database (consisting of regular line segments and circular arcs, defined by 3 points and a direction) ?   If this cannot be done directly is there any way through MapBasic to be able to read the objects nodes and arcs and try to implement the shape by adding arcs to polylines and converting to region for display purposes ?   This is a really important feature because the number of points in the Oracle database for the compound polygons needs to be very small for the project I am investigating. Unfortunatly, region objects cannot be used.   Another quick question: Is MapInfo 5.5 only supporting Oracle Spatial 8.1.5 ?   Any help or experiences would be greatly appreciated.   Dany Bouchard DBx Geomatics 38 de l'Orbite Hull, Qu�bec Canada J9A 3C7 T�l�phone/Telephone: 819.743.3870 T�l�copieur/Fax: 819.775.3264 Courrier �lectronique/Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page Web/Web site: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/home.asp Vitrine technologique SVG / SVG Technology Preview: http://www.dbxgeomatics.com/svg.asp