MapGuide at Oracle Open World: Information Station Kiosks and Leveraging Berkeley DB XML

22 September 2008 Geoff Zeiss

Oracle Open World (OOW) is happening this week in San Francisco.  Maybe a better way toImg_1850
put it is that OOW is happening to San Francisco this week.  OOW is ubiquitous.  Rumour has it that Oracle is expecting 56 000 attendees.  Downtown hotels are sold out.  I’ve heard that Oracle employees are out in Oakland and other surrounding municipalities to make way for customers and partners to stay in downtown San Francisco.

One of the things that Oracle has commissioned for this event is 110+ Information Station kiosks with 50″ flat screen displays, where attendees can search for exhibitors, session and
demo locations, partner booths, hotspots , events, pavilions and lounges, and then view Interactive maps of the twelve OOW facilities including Moscone
South/North/West, Marriot, Yerba Buena, Palace Hotel, Intercon, Westin,
Hilton, and Metreon.  The web-based application, which is designed to help attendees navigate around OOW, was developed by Pacific Data Resources and integrates MapGuide Enterprise 2009, Oracle 10g R2, with Oracle Schedule Builder.  One of the interesting capabilities is the “You Are Here” feature.Img_1853

   Each kiosk is location smart and provides direction information from its location to the other venues.

I’ve got a session Monday afternoon to talk about  how MapGuide leverages Berkeley DB XML for the MapGuide resource repository.  I’m doing this in cooperation with the Autodesk development folks responsible for the repository implementation, Steve Dang, Bruce Dechant and Bob Bray.

Unfortunately I am only at OOW Monday so I am going to miss some interesting sessions including quite a number on Oracle Spatial.  Monday evening I am flying to the UK where I will be giving a talk at AGI GeoCommunity ’08.

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss

Geoff Zeiss has more than 20 years experience in the geospatial software industry and 15 years experience developing enterprise geospatial solutions for the utilities, communications, and public works industries. His particular interests include the convergence of BIM, CAD, geospatial, and 3D. In recognition of his efforts to evangelize geospatial in vertical industries such as utilities and construction, Geoff received the Geospatial Ambassador Award at Geospatial World Forum 2014. Currently Geoff is Principal at Between the Poles, a thought leadership consulting firm. From 2001 to 2012 Geoff was Director of Utility Industry Program at Autodesk Inc, where he was responsible for thought leadership for the utility industry program. From 1999 to 2001 he was Director of Enterprise Software Development at Autodesk. He received one of ten annual global technology awards in 2004 from Oracle Corporation for technical innovation and leadership in the use of Oracle. Prior to Autodesk Geoff was Director of Product Development at VISION* Solutions. VISION* Solutions is credited with pioneering relational spatial data management, CAD/GIS integration, and long transactions (data versioning) in the utility, communications, and public works industries. Geoff is a frequent speaker at geospatial and utility events around the world including Geospatial World Forum, Where 2.0, MundoGeo Connect (Brazil), Middle East Spatial Geospatial Forum, India Geospatial Forum, Location Intelligence, Asia Geospatial Forum, and GITA events in US, Japan and Australia. Geoff received Speaker Excellence Awards at GITA 2007-2009.

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