Spatial Fusion, internet-based technology for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing heterogeneous, distributed data sources in a highly transparent, user-friendly environment combines the speed and convenience of the Internet with the ability to read multiple data sources in their native format.

Spatial Fusion can read CARIS files, ESRI shape files, Oracle 8i Spatial, and GeoTiff data sources in their own format, without the need for translation. Maps can be made up of multiple data sources, the map being divided into multiple layers, or collections of spatial features that are all of the same type.

Spatial Fusion will reduce headaches associated with managing various data projections as it supports multiple data projections. Also, there is no need to centralize your spatial data as The Fusion Data Services are registered with the Orbix-Implementation Repository, allowing the Java client to make requests and receive responses any data service in the repository. Data can be stored on two different machines or on two different servers, but, from the client’s perspective, the data appears to be stored in the same place.

With Spatial Fusion, you can accomplish the following:

• create maps by merging data from ESRI shapefiles, CARIS files, MapInfo, Tiff, and data stored in Oracle 8i
• view multiple map layers made with different projections
• navigate through multiple map layers
• query a layer’s attributes
• classify features within a layer by range or unique value
• annotate features within a layer with any of its associated attributes

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