15 OpenLS Support
This chapter describes the Oracle Spatial support for web services based on the Open Location Services Initiative (OpenLS) of the Open GeoSpatial Consortium (OGC), versions 1.0 and 1.1.
Note:
Before you use OpenLS, be sure that you understand the concepts described in Introduction to Spatial Web Services, and that you have performed any necessary configuration work as described in that chapter.For a description of OpenLS, see http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/ols, which includes links for downloads and schemas.
- Supported OpenLS Services
Spatial supports the following OGC OpenLS services. - OpenLS Application Programming Interfaces
Two application programming interfaces (APIs) are provided using Spatial OpenLS services: a web services API and a PL/SQL API.. - OpenLS Service Support and Examples
This section describes the support provided for geocoding, mapping, routing, and directory service (YP). It also contains examples of OpenLS web services API requests and responses.
Parent topic: Spatial Web Services