Features
- Generate and analyze spatial and business information, and store
and manage this data using a single SQL interface.
- Control whether information will be gathered for the location,
shape of, and relationships among business data and geographic data,
including map data.
- Import census data in common spatial formats, such as well-known
text, well-known binary, or shape format
- Ability to save spatial data maps to a file
- Export spatial data maps to procedures or as graphics files
(as .bmp or .emf files)
- Use SQL extensions to handle complex data types and allow applications
to store and manipulate objects directly inside the DB2 database
- Make these data more SQL accessible
- Perform SQL querying of spatial data or joining this data with
conventional business data stored any DB2 database
- Work with visualization tools to provide visual map renderings
of spatial data
- Implement spatial data modeling
- Work with multiple data types
- Support popular industry formats, such as ESRI shape files (.spm)
