Oracle Maps uses "Openstreetmap" as WMS

Thanks to the analysis work and "hacking" done by my colleague Carsten Czarski I am pleased to present the Openstreetmap solution (free maps...!!) being integrated in Oracle Maps utilising an Openstreetmap WMS service provided by the WHEREGROUP.

In the Oracle Mapviewer it looks like:



Here are some screenshots of the setup of the "Map Tile Layer Definition":



The "cutted" url is : http://osm.wheregroup.com/cgi-bin/mapserv

you will have to use SRID 4326 - I used 10 zoom-levels:



In Oracle Application Express with Oracle Maps it looks like:

A tutorial (in German) can be found on the German APEX Community site.

"Firewall challenges":
The OSM-server resides in the Internet. If your MapViewer Installation is behind a firewall, you'll  need to define your Proxy-Server... this has to be done in the file
"MapViewerConfig.xml" or here:
MapViewer Admin GUI --> Configuration --> search for "Web Proxy Settings"

And the "check-box" for "HTTP Proxy required" has to be set in the MapTileLayer configuration

DOAG SIG Spatial infos

The DOAG SIG Spatial event September 9th in Frankfurt was a great success ! Again more than 70 people attended the event. Thanks to Thomas Pahl's excellent organisation and the very interesting topics and speeches (as planned - pls see my previous thread on this).

After 7 years of DOAG SIG SPATIAL organising Thomas Pahl will hand over the event organisation to other spatial enthusiasts -
A GREAT THANK YOU to Thomas for all his voluntary work ! Great !

As promised and as a follow up of my speech pls make a note of the following information:

MAPVIEWER 11g Preview (comprising Oracle Maps) is now production and supported! - whereas you might miss it for download on the Mapviewer download page.
As MAPVIEWER now has become part of the Oracle Weblogic Server (WLS) and the version 11g is not out,
MAPVIEWER's new version is: 10.1.3.1 + Patch#4 (incl. Oracle Maps)
You may download it from Metalink.oracle.com - search for patch 7195504
Mapviewer does run on WLS - I did test it -and the certification process of Mapviewer on WLS is underway.

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Of great interest was the new Oracle Middleware Strategy: So I post some links here.
See and hear the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy as a Podcast or the Product Strategy and Briefing (pdf) or the Webcast "BEA Welcome and Middleware Strategy Briefing" (Charles Phillips - Oracle President and Thomas Kurian - Oracle SVP Development - July 1st 2008)

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Forgotten Links:
Geocoder Demo: http://elocation.oracle.com/geocoder
Oracle Maps online: http://elocation.oracle.com/elocation/ajax
Oracle Mapviewer online: http://elocation.oracle.com/mapviewer

New (in German) Spatial Community page with a wealth of information !

All visitors of the DOAG SIG Spatial will received the links to supporting papers and copies of the speeches on paper or pdf from the DOAG organisation.

I enjoyed both speaking at the DOAG event and meeting all the people !
Take care !

Neuer Mapviewer 11g

Den Oracle AS Mapviewer, der auch Oracle Maps beinhaltet, gibt es in einer neuen Version; mit insgesamt 55 Demos (ca. 20 neu) und etwas "schickeren" Images für Navigation, Info-Window, Scale Bar usw.
Speziell im BI Bereich ist einiges dazugekommen :



Auch ist die oraclemaps.js erweitert worden um weitere Event Listeners wie u.a.:

mapview.setEventListener("mouse_click", mouseClick);
mapview.setEventListener("mouse_right_click", mouseRightClick);
mapview.setEventListener("recenter", recenter);
mapview.setEventListener("before_zoom_level_change", beforeZoom);
mapview.setEventListener("zoom_level_change", zoom);

u.v.a.m.

Sowie die neue Version zum Download bereit steht, werde ich es hier vermelden.
Der Mapviewer ist ja ein Teil des Oracle Application Servers und für die neue Version 11g gibt es noch kein offizielles Release Date.