New York City Uses Oracle Spatial Technology

The biggest things -- buildings, trends, theatrical productions -- often make their debuts in New York City. It's no coincidence that the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications has created one of the largest city-wide spatial data warehouses to help significantly reduce the costs associated with collecting, managing and disseminating mapping data. A complete digital map of New York City is now stored and managed in an Oracle data warehouse, using Oracle Spatial, allowing the city to extend geographic information technology to everyone via the Web. Beginning this fall, a city-wide application to be called "EveryOne Map," will be available to the public on the official city Website to help enable businesses, citizens and government officials to make more effective decisions. For example, prospective home buyers could learn about assessed values, ownership information and community resources to help them choose properties. Other valuable information that will be available via EveryOne Map includes data on open space, parks, building footprints, curb lines, water bodies, parcels and census tracts. The city government may also use Oracle Spatial database technology to help perform tasks such as coping with hurricanes and blizzards more effectively by geographically examining homes likely to be flooded to help determine how many beds may be needed in temporary shelters. Using Oracle technology, New York City is enabling e-government, helping public officials and citizens work more efficiently and save money.

Contact Michael Sperling of Oracle Corp, 650-506-4176, or michael.sperling@oracle.com.