The Geodetic Data Management feature provides the ability to store, access, manage, or analyze location-based round earth information for weather, defense, intelligence, or natural resource applications for commercial or government use. It provides the ability to manage and analyze spatial information with accuracies in distance and area by treating the earth as a continuous spherical coordinate system.
The DB2 Geodetic Data Management Feature supports treatment of the Earth like a globe rather than a flat map, making it easier to develop applications for Data Warehousing and Analytics and e-government that require geographical location analysis.
DB2 Geodetic Data Management Feature integrates with worldwide systems because location information is collected using GPS, and business data such as addresses can be "geocoded". It improves performance of geographic data applications by offering storage and retrieval capabilities inherent in map projections. DB2 uses the Voronoi spatial index for maximum performance.
The feature accurately renders data and therefore enterprise applications work better by keeping data in un-projected form, earth-to-flat map projections are left in presentation layer and the Earth is treated as a continuous globe which improves precision and accuracy.
