Robert, All: Is there any reference documentation on using Oracle features within MapInfo? I am encouraged to hear that one can use MapInfo with Oracle spatially and would appreciate any links or other pointers to info on this.
Thank you! Jonathan ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:00 +1000 From: "Robert Crossley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [MI-L] ESRI Geodatabase "formats" (way off topic) To: <mapinfo-l@lists.directionsmag.com> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To me, a lot of the attractiveness of the Arc personal database is its encapsulation of the objects within a data record, giving better data integrity and allowing you to maintain both the data and the spatial objects from Access or MapInfo (or am I wrong here?). MapInfo already has this capability with the Oracle products (whereas Arc needs its Spatial Data Engine to do this). I still haven't got around to experimenting with the latest free version of Oracle XE, but my reading suggests that it should be able to act as a data repository for MapInfo data and satisfy that requirement at least. Perhaps, MapInfo could streamline Oracle's setup for its purposes, and some of the equivalent functionality with triggers etc? Even some guideance on what can be done and what can't would be a help. MapInfo's ability to work natively with the Oracle Spatial Data is really a point of difference between Arc and MapInfo, but is not really exploited very well. R _______________________________________________ MapInfo-L mailing list MapInfo-L@lists.directionsmag.com http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
