... Specifically, Oracle introduced the Oracle Spatial suite of technology to support spatial pro-cessing inside an Oracle database. Since GIS have been around for several years, you may wonder why Oracle ... 1 ■ SPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT166. See www.opengeospatial.org for information on approved standards, for an overview of ongoing standardiza-tion initiatives for spatial information data ... value.Benefits of Oracle SpatialThe functionality described in the previous section has been the main bread and butter for GIS for decades. In the past five to ten years, database vendors such as Oracle...