This document has the following parts:

• Conceptual and Usage Information provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle Spatial.

• Part II provides conceptual and usage information about Oracle Spatial web services.

• Reference Information provides reference information about Oracle Spatial operators, functions, and procedures.

• Supplementary Information provides supplementary information (appendixes and a glossary).

Part II contains the following chapters.

• Introduction to Spatial Web Services
  This chapter introduces the Oracle Spatial support for spatial web services.
• Geocoding Address Data
  Geocoding is the process of associating spatial locations (longitude and latitude coordinates) with postal addresses.
• Business Directory (Yellow Pages) Support
  Oracle Spatial provides support for OpenLS business directory (Yellow Pages, or YP) services.
• Routing Engine
  The Spatial routing engine (often referred to as the routing engine) enables you to host an XML-based web service that provides the following features.
• 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.
• Web Feature Service (WFS) Support
  Oracle Spatial includes Web Feature Service (WFS) support.
• Web Coverage Service (WCS) Support
  This chapter describes the Oracle Spatial implementation of the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) standard for Web Coverage Service Interface Standard (WCS), which, supports retrieval of “coverages” (according to the OGC, “electronic encoding of geospatial data, that is, digital geospatial information representing space and time-varying phenomena”).
• Catalog Services for the Web (CSW) Support
  Oracle Spatial provides an implementation of the Open GIS Consortium specification for catalog services.