Oracle Spatial Vs Oracle Locator

Oracle Locator do:-

• All geometric objects
• – Points, lines, polygons
• – 2D, 3D, 4D
• Indexing (quadtrees and r-trees)
• Spatial queries
• Proximity queries
• Distances
• Projections

Oracle Spatial do:-

• All Locator functionality
• Geometric Transformations
• Spatial Aggregations
• Linear referenced features, LRS, e.g. roads which store the distance along the road
• Network Modeling, such as road networks, allowing rapid calculation of shortest paths
• Topological relationships can be stored, such as this property boundary touches this neighbouring boundary.
• GeoRaster Storage of images such as satellite and aerial photography
• Geocoder that translates address data to coordinate, a routing engine for street directions
• Spatial Data Mining
• 3D Types (LIDAR, TINS)
• Web Services (WFS, CSW, OpenLS)
• Explicit coordinate transformations