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MapInfo® SpatialWare®
The Information Management Tool for Storing, Managing and Maintaining
Location-based Data
MapInfo SpatialWare software enhances the value of your corporate
data by enabling it to be stored, managed and quickly retrieved from
leading commercial database management systems, Informix®
and Microsoft® SQL Server.
MapInfo SpatialWare is the first spatial information management system
to implement SQL-based advanced spatial access, analysis and modelling
in a database environment for the occasional user, or the sophisticated
database programmer. It sets a new standard in ease of use and seamless
integration. Simply stated, SpatialWare allows you to enhance key
business processes by connecting data and location.
Overview
MapInfo SpatialWare enhances the value of your corporate data by
extending the storage and analysis capabilities of your database environment.
SpatialWare enables location-based, or spatial data, to be easily
integrated with non-spatial data both on the desktop and across the
enterprise ensuring data accessibility, scalability, integrity, reliability
and security.
Storing key business information and customer location information
in your database allows users to query both spatial and non-spatial
data types within a single SQL Server query. SpatialWare provides
a consistent and standard-based environment allowing an enterprise
to integrate spatial data within the corporate database environment.
This empowers corporations to collect, manage, analyse and visualise
data in a spatial context, as well as the traditional non-spatial
context. Decision makers can now visualise and analyse large amounts
of complex data - better, faster and easier than ever before.
Benefits
- Extend Functionality - Includes spatial data in your database
for better data management spatial indexing and SQL extensions.
- Better Data - Eliminates redundant geographic data files to provide
better data integrity, recovery and security.
- Flexibility - Analyse data at the database tier and the client
tier.
- Cost-Effective - Centralise data and reduce the resources needed
to store and maintain data - saving both time and money.
- Scalability - On the desktop or throughout the enterprise, SpatialWare
can be integrated into any environment.
- Ease of Use - MapInfo SpatialWare allows native SQL to access
spatial functions so existing applications can talk to your database
the same way they always have.
Features
Overview
- Complete server-based spatial information management
system.
- Efficient, flexible spatial data for MapInfo and other
spatial data in leading commercial database management systems.
- Powerful, fully-integrated Standard Query Language (SQL)
extensions for spatial operations.
- High speed spatial data loaders.
- Highly scalable to thousands of users and hundreds of
gigabytes of spatial data.
- Integration and management of spatial and business data
in a single database environment.
- Central storage and management of large volumes of spatial
data.
- Align with ISO/IEC 13249-3-1999; Spatial Standard and
the Open GIS Consortium's Simple Feature Specification.
- Standards-based spatial operators such as buffer, contains,
adjacent to, overlap, length, union, slope, area and perimeter.
- Sophisticated SpatialWare Operator extensions like Difference,
Convex Hull, Clean, Relate, Cross and many others.
- 1000 predefined co-ordinate systems are supported as
well as custom user-defined projection systems.
- SpatialWare supports data extract and import in both
OGIS WKB and WKT formats.
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Powerful Standard
SQL for Data Access
Uses standard commands to create, update, insert, delete
and select spatial objects in a table. It makes adapting to
spatial information applications easier for users and developers
- lowering training costs and overall investment.
SpatialWare facilitates the addition of powerful location
analysis extensions to a relational database, simplifying
both query and analysis of complex location data. It also
extends popular relational database tools so you can manipulate
and analyse location data simply and efficiently.
- SpatialWare has over 150 functions allowing you to analyse
and manipulate location data. Grouped into six categories,
they include:
- Spatial Predicates, such as Overlaps and Contains, analyse
location data types to see if they meet specific conditions
- a true or false is returned.
- Spatial Measurement Functions, including length, perimeter
and height, return number values describing a spatial data
type’s shape, size, angle, rotation or position.
- Spatial Functions perform operations on spatial data
types and return a new spatial data type. For example, Union
joins two spatial objects and returns the combined result
as a new spatial object, or Buffer which "expands"
the shape of an object by a user specified distance.
- Constructor Functions create new spatial objects. For
example, Circle is a spatial data type using a point and
radius to create the circle.
- Observer Functions return numbers, objects, or conditions
from within a spatial object. Number of co-ordinates, begin
point, end point and assemble status are examples of Observer
Functions.
- General Functions include mathematical functions, identifiers,
and indexing functions. For example, Pi, Degrees and functions
that may be specific to a particular database environment.
As SpatialWare fully utilises SQL, to add ASCII data, you
simply format the data with standard SQL commands - no special
converters or formatting is required. By employing emerging
industry standards, SpatialWare assures your future needs
can be met while avoiding obsolescence. SpatialWare also
makes it easy for you to load MapInfo tables, AutoCAD DXF
and SDTS files by providing utilities, such as “Easy
Loader” to import these data formats directly into
your database.
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The Software
MapInfo SpatialWare is made up of three main components:
- Spatial Data Type - provides the storage mechanism and necessary
functionality to store, retrieve and maintain the content of spatial
data. It also allows the data type to be cast to useful derivative
types for use by client software.
- The geometries stored in this data type, can either be two- or
three-dimensional. The data type and the SQL functions are based
on ISO SQL/Multimedia standards and OpenGIS Consortium standards.
- Spatial Indexing - Implements a special indexing scheme based
on Range-Tree (R-Tree) technology, designed to index spatial data.
R-Tree indexing is well suited for distribution patterns typical
for spatial data, and designed so no knowledge of the data is required
to achieve optimum performance.
Spatial Operators - Contains over 150 extensions to retrieve data
from tables with the ability to compute new geometric values or
qualify data based upon geometric relationships. These include extensions
defined in the ISO standard, as well as additional operators, known
by MapInfo to be required by its customers, such as co-ordinate
system support, distance, centroid and convex hull calculations
and others.
System Requirements for Optional Database and Operating Systems
Informix
- Informix Dynamic Server with the Universal Data Option Version
9.21.
- Sun® Solaris 2.7, Windows NT® 4.0
or HP/UX 11.0 operating environment.
- Microsoft® SQL Server 7.0 Desktop or Enterprise
Edition, Microsoft SQL Server 2000.
- Microsoft® Windows NT 4.0 or Microsoft Windows
2000.
Extensible, Adaptable Spatial Object Storage and Access
Multiple Client Support - Supports MapInfo clients including
MapInfo Professional®, desk-top mapping software; MapInfo
MapX®, an OCX component, allows you to integrate a
mapping object into new and pre-existing business applications; and
MapInfo® MapXtreme® NT or Java edition,
a mapping application server to add interactive maps to your web site.
ODBC Client Connectivity - Provides an open connection to
SpatialWare through the use of almost any commercial off the shelf
software such as Delphi or Visual Basic. For example, Microsoft SQL
Server Query Analyser can be used to submit traditional SQL statements
or prepare pass through queries allowing the use of spatial operators
and predicates.
C API - For custom development, SpatialWare provides a C
API (placed in the public domain) that exposes the full functionality
of the database to application developers.
Required Elements
- TCP/IP Network.
- System administration and database privileges for installation
and setting up the database environment.
- Internet browser to access documentation.
- Email connection to obtain a licence file.
- CD recommended on server, or cross mountable, for installation.
- Graphics display recommended on server or remote x windows access
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