Spatial Databases
CSC 543

Books and Tutorials

• Spatial Databases, a Tour; Shashi Shekhar, Sanjay Chawla, Prentice-Hall, 2003.
• Spatial Databases with Application to GIS; Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl, Agnes Voisard; Morgan Kaufman, 2001
• Spatial Databases, Technologies, Techniques, and Trends; Michael Gr Vassilakopoulos, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, IGI, 2005.
• Pro Oracle Spatial, Ravi Kothuri, Albert Godfrind and Euro Beinat , Apress, 2004. (Available at Books 24x7 through the library.)
• Spatial Database Systems (tutorial), Ralf Hartmut Güting
• Encyclopedia of GIS, Shekhar, Xiong, 2008.

Articles

• OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium, the spatial standards group)

Software and Documentation

• Mapping Geometric Data with Oracle Spatial, Matt Bauer
• My SQL Spatial Extensions
• Google Maps API
• How to use the PL/SQL API for Oracle Spatial
• PL/SQL reference, detailed PL/SQL reference, simple PL/SQL examples
• How to get SQLDeveloper and set up your Oracle Account
• MLPQ, constraint database system by Peter Revesz