I haven't a clue which section to post this question in, so if it's in the wrong place i appologise.
My question is about Microsoft SQL server and Geospatial. I heard rumors about Microsoft added a Geospatial componet to sql server years ago in order to compete with Oracle. I have not hear anything more about this functionality and now our organzation is looking at going to Oracle because of our need for a Geospatial database. Ideally we would like to continue to use Microsoft products but we have not heard of anything that will meet our needs in this area.
Is there anything available right now?
This article discusses the changes available in SQL Server 2005 (Yukon)
http://www.locationintelligence.net/articles/430.html
I can confirm the items mentioned are in SQL server 2005, i.e. user defined types and progamability with .Net.
So it seems there is nothing out of the box but the flexibility to cater for most situations.
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