CHAPTER 3Location-Enabling Your Applications

To run the examples in this chapter, you need to import a dataset in the spatial schema as follows. Please refer to the "Setting Up" section in the introduction of this book for instructions on creating the spatial schema and other setup details.

imp spatial/spatial file=gc.dmp ignore=y full=y

Consider a business application that stores information about its branches (or stores), customers, competitors, suppliers, and so on. If you location-enable such a business application, you can perform the following types of analysis:

  • Spatial query and analysis: Identify the number of customers in different sales territories of a branch of this business or a competitor.
  • Network/routing analysis: Compute the ...

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