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We’re pleased to announce the release of Oracle Spatial Studio 24.1, a no-code web tool for working with the spatial features of Oracle Database. In this release we’ve focused on enchancing existing features and including new support for a popular file type, 3D tiles. This blog post will explore some of the enhancements available in this release. For general information about Spatial Studio and to get started, please click here.

Enhanced embedding of published Studio projects

Spatial Studio provides functionality to embed published maps into other web applications. New capabilities enable interactive behavior between your application and an embedded map using an enhanced API. For an application built on a platform without native map visualization features, embedding Spatial Studio maps is an easy alternative to custom coding. But even for an application built on a platform having map features, Spatial Studio provides advantages, for example high performance in map rendering of large volumes. The image below is an elementary example of a Spatial Studio map embedded into an Oracle APEX application, allowing the user to select items in the map to highlight corresponding records in the native APEX table, and vice versa.

Enhanced Cesium 3D visualizations to support updated 3D Tiles specification

3D Tiles is a popular file format for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets, allowing for efficient interaction at runtime.  The Open Geospatial Consortium updated the 3D Tiles specification in 2023, and subsequently, Cesium has included support for the features in this standard. Spatial Studio has been enhanced to include these features. More information on the standard and Cesium’s implementation can be found here. 

Support for incremental Geocoding

Spatial Studio provides the ability to geocode data, whereby addresses are converted to point locations for mapping and spatial analysis. For scenarios where your data are continually or periodically appended with new addresses, Spatial Studio has added the ability to perform “incremental geocoding”. This means that only new addresses are geocoded, regardless of the volume of previously geocoded addresses. This ensures less rework, saving resources, and improving efficiency.

There’s much more included in this release that we did not cover here. Make sure to check out the documentation for more. Want to learn more? Please use these links to our download information, LiveLab workshops, and more information.