When we refer to Business Objects or Spatial Business Objects we refer to the technical concept that data from different feature sources can be combined into new objects within Spatial Workshop. The user has a transparent view of the data he is interested in and does not need to worry about where the data of Spatial Business Object comes from.
With Spatial Workshop Express you can access a wide range of popular data sources, like, ESRI Arc Shape, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, ECW, Google KML, OGC WMS, MrSid and other raster files, etc.
For access to corporate databases like Oracle, Oracle Spatial you will need to by one of the other Spatial Workshop Suites.
For access to the Smallworld VMDS database you need to buy a license. All other adapters come for free with the product.
Multi Maps allow you to create relations between Business Objects in Spatial Workshop and related maps or drawings. You can use Multi Maps in many different ways:
- You can link maps, pictures, drawings, schematics, floor plans, schematics etc. to any data you have available within Spatial Workshop,
- You can link documents to objects, like manuals or technical drawings to equipment, legal documents to spatial infrastructures, detailed drawings of assets, schematics of networks, etc.
- You can build a hierarchy of related maps, through which a user can browse simply by clicking graphical tags,
- Multi Maps also incorporate Smallworld internal worlds.
Yes. Spatial Workshop allows you to export data to popular formats, like Arc Shape, Google MKL and Microsoft Excel. Please ask us for the latest export formats.
Spatial Workshop allows you to access data in a range of feature sources, to combine and reshape this information as you need it.
This means that Spatial Workshop allows you also to translate (import, export) data between different systems very dynamically.
In this way you can i.e. very quickly take data from Oracle, Oracle Spatial, combine and remodel it and export it to Arc Shape or publish it on the Internet via Google Earth.
- You have direct access to data in the Smallworld Versions Managed Data Store (VMDS). Any changes in the Smallworld VMDS will be reflected immediately in Spatial Workshop. No difficult and time consuming Extract, Transfer and Load process is required,
- You can select data from different versions/alternatives in Smallworld VMDS
- When you create a Spatial Workshop project the ACE information like styles, view scales, scale ranges and visibility settings can be imported from Smallworld,
- Multiple Smallworld databases can be accessed from one Spatial Workshop project,
- You can define relations between Smallworld data, files, maps, pictures, schematics, etc.
- Mapped geometry/ multiple geometries can be used within Spatial Workshop,
- Spatial Workshop supports the Smallworld internal world features via the Multi Map mechanism,
- You can add new, derived information, alphanumeric and geometric, to the data available within Smallworld VMDS,
- Topology is not supported at the moment,
- Internal Smallworld raster files are not supported at the moment.
With Spatial Workshop you can access both alphanumeric and spatial information within the Oracle database. Spatial Workshop supports a range of specific features, like:
- Direct and native access to Oracle Spatial data types. No extract, transfer and load of data is required. Changes in the Oracle database are immediately reflected within Spatial Workshop. No adjustments or additions to the standard Oracle Spatial data model are required to access it with Spatial Workshop,
- Basic support of Oracle Workspace Manager is incorporated in Spatial Workshop. We can make this functionality available to customers on request,
- Within Spatial Workshop you can use and extend the styling information available within Oracle,
- You can combine data in Oracle / Oracle Spatial with data from other sources, like Arc Shape, Smallworld, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Google, KML, OGC WMS services, etc,
- You can add new, derived information to Oracle data.
No. Spatial Workshop uses an advanced geometry model, which allows you to incorporate complex geometrical structures from the data sources that you may use into Spatial Workshop. Spatial Workshop supports geometric structures like holes in holes, multi lines, multi polygons, etc.