... www.opengeospatial.org for information on approved standards, for an overview of ongoing standardiza-tion initiatives for spatial information data and systems, and for an up-to-date list of compliant products.7. ... 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 ... of spatial applications.CHAPTER 1 ■ SPATIAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 179. For a list of partners, visit http://otn .oracle. com/products /spatial/ index.html, and click the Partners link(in the Oracle...