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Oracle Spatial 12c - new features for spatial (maybe, possibly, subject to all Oracle caveats)

Today I had the pleasure of chairing the UKOUG Oracle Spatial SIG at Oracle's London City Office. I'm on the Committee for the SIG and use the technology a lot in my day to day work, so my view is biased, but I do like the SIG as I always leave it with a better idea of the Oracle Spatial technology roadmap and invariably have at least one 'take-home' idea or tit-bit which I have gleamed from one of the other presenters, sharing their experiences of Spatial.   Happily today was no exception. Albert Godfrind (part of the Oracle Spatial development team) gave a great insight into the likely Spatial enhancements in the 12c R1 database release (the 'c' if you are wondering stands for 'cloud' which was obviously one of the key directions announced at Oracle Openworld earlier this month) all delivered in his wonderfully no-frills Gallic style. 12c is currently in 'beta 2' so will probably not hit the shelves until at least mid-2013. In summary

Oracle extends range of mapping integration options

So a year on from the announcement of TomTom Geospatial for Oracle at OpenWorld 2011, the first day of OpenWorld 2012 saw the announcement of a similar tie-up between Oracle and Nokia. The deal will allows users of Oracle Fusion Middleware (now the home of the MapViewer technology) to integrate services from the Nokia Location Platform and Maps API into their enterprise apps. The deal is perhaps not surprising given the previous relationship between Oracle and Navteq, and the full consummation of Navteq into Nokia. This also follows a number of other recent deals by Nokia with various car manufacturers and the likes of Garmin, GroupOn and Amazon. Presumably the new deal will not affect the existing relationship with TomTom and offers a wider choice of mapping services for the Oracle user. From the Nokia perspective this gives them another channel to market as they compete for 'mapping' market share with the likes of Google and Apple.