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Free Data from NAVTEQ Makes It Easy to Map-Enable Your Business
Customers can now add value to existing Oracle systems by integrating location-based business data from NAVTEQ, making it easy to perform spatial analysis and quickly integrate maps and location intelligence into enterprise applications. The NAVTEQ data can be downloaded free from Oracle Technology Network.
“NAVTEQ is the leading provider of digital map data on the planet,” says Jim Steiner, Oracle’s senior director of product management. “Now you can use their data along with Oracle Database and Oracle Spatial.”
Oracle customers can derive new meaning and clarity from their application data by coupling it with maps and showing the results of queries or analysis based on location. “The free NAVTEQ data that we provide gives you city, county, state, and country boundaries, so you can show your assets, customers, and events related to your business, or available resources such as field personnel on a map background,” says Steiner.
While these mapping capabilities are common in applications used by call centers, asset management, and emergency response applications, Steiner believes that a wider range of organizations will use them in their business intelligence systems. For example, map data can be used to easily visualize where customers or assets are within a city or state, or to see performance indicators by geography or territory. “Geographic data are great for managing the people and the assets that make up any organization’s mobile workforce,” adds Steiner.
NAVTEQ data is ready for use with Oracle Database, Oracle Spatial, and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer, as well as with Oracle applications such as Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (Oracle eAM), and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM). NAVTEQ makes its data available in transportable tablespace format and also in Oracle Data Format, which conforms to Oracle’s geocoding, routing, and mapping schema—so it’s preformatted for use with Oracle technology.
NAVTEQ administrative boundary data for more than 45 countries is available at no cost to Oracle Database users via Oracle Technology Network. Customers wanting to add more detail, such as street maps and zip code data, can contact NAVTEQ via the URLs below.
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