A White Paper
iSMART Enterprise GeoSpatial Suite
Database-level
Interoperability
for GIS Tools
October 2005
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Eamon Walsh, Chief Technology Officer
Bryan Hughes, Senior Consultant eSpatial Solutions
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Table of Contents
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INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY ............................................................................ 2
2. DATA SHARING................................................................................................... 3
3. COMMON STYLING ............................................................................................. 4
4. TOPOLOGY SHARING......................................................................................... 5
5. ESRI ARCSDE ISSUES........................................................................................ 7
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IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH ......................................................................... 8
7. APPENDIX: OVERVIEW OF ISMART .................................................................. 8
8. APPENDIX: ESPATIAL COMPANY BACKGROUND........................................... 9
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INTRODUCTION & SUMMARY
eSpatial (www.espatial.com ) provide the iSMART Enterprise Geospatial Suite of software
products; comprising iSMART GeoPortal for pure web map viewing, analysis, and editing;
iSMART Editor for multi-user GIS data capture both on-line and off-line, and the iSMART
Server run-time platform and associated development environment for spatially enabled
applications in a standard enterprise IT environment, using Oracle.
Interoperability between different GIS tools may be provided for using the capabilities
(where available) of the GIS tools to directly access spatial databases such as Oracle
Spatial. There are a number of issues that need to be addressed to allow multiple GIS
vendor’s tools share a common Oracle Spatial Databa