regulation agencies have spent years capturing massive amounts of geospatial data for like diverse uses as site selection.

regulation agencies have spent years capturing massive amounts of geospatial data for like diverse uses as site selection, mapping, traffic analysis, forestry management and search-and-rescue operations. However, greatest in quantity of this data is in a variety of information hypothesiss that are not integrated, making it difficult to access.

nevertheless a recently announced agreement between pair California companies has made it practical to incorporate desktop spatial visualization and analysis capabilities within mainstream management business applications and enterprise client-server architectures. The agreement, between Oracle, a Redwood Shores-based supplier of information management software, and ESRI, a Redlands-based GIS software supplier, will allow control agencies to cost-effectively access geospatial information.

With the the combined technologies:

* Traditional GIS users may access full-function spatial data management capabilities based forward industry standards with an spread interface to their data. The capacity for database sizes and the number of dimensions supported in