What Is GeoToolbox for Virtual Earth? BizMaps GeoToolbox provides a set of integrated spatial services that ensures your data is utilised to its full potential within Virtual Earth. GeoToolbox combines custom .NET components, Oracle stored procedures and Microsoft MapPoint WebServices in a seamless Web Service API.  The main features of GeoToolbox are as follows: Oracle Spatial Connector  GeoToolbox stores spatial data in Oracle Spatial format.  Data is saved and retrieved in raw OCI format for lightning performance.  GeoToolbox works with Oracle Locator which is part of the standard Oracle 10g install rather than the much more expensive Oracle Spatial product.  Geotoolbox utilises Oracles built-in spatial functionality (i.e. Point in Polygon, Boundary Select, Buffering, coordinate conversion etc.). Non-Spatial Database Connector  GeoToolbox can also intergrate with non-spatially enabled databases (SQL Server, DB2, Oracle 8i, etc.) by storing and retrieving data in OpenGIS format in Blob fields.  Custom .NET compoonents replicate Oracle Spatial functionality.  Thus you can leverage your existing infrastructure environment without compromising your Virtual Earth application. MapPoint Web Service Integration  GeoToolbox harnesses the advanced features of Microsoft's MapPoint Web Services including advanced routing, spatial selections, etc. and enables these functions to be incorporated into your Virtual Earth solution. Vector Server  GeoToolbox can serve data directly from your database as shape objects in Virtual Earth.  Provide custom mouseover information in formatted HTML served directly from your database. Tile Server  GeoToolbox can serve vector data directly from your database as custom tile layers in Virtual Earth.  This allows vast quantities of data to be drawn which would otherwise overwhelm Virtual Earth.  The drawing component provides a vast array of polyline,polygon,symbol and labelling styles to create the exact look and feel required. Clustering  GeoToobox provides intelligent clustering of points at various zoom levels within Virtual Earth.  At zoomed in levels, all locations are plotted on the map in their correct locations.  However as the user zooms out locations are clustered together, that is a single location is displayed in the centre of a number of locations that would otherwise overlap.  This not only gives a clearer view of data, it also allows for combining of data via custom business logic.  For example at a zoomed in level all outlets in a town will be color coded based on their individual sales, however at a zooomed out level a single symbol can be displayed for the entire town with the color determined by total sales of all outlets in the town.   Hosted Public Data  GeoToolbox contains an array of publicly available datasets which can be accessed by your application without the need to store the data in your database.  Datasets like GeoDirectory, Census of Population, Aerial Photography, etc. are available via Vector and Tile Servers.  This not only eases your storage requirements and reduces development time, it also provides considerable license saving versus purchasing the entire datasets.  Route Optimisation  GeoToolbox solves the "Travelling Saleman" problem to provide the most cost-effective ordering of route stops. Topology Validation  GeoToolbox can validate the topology of digitised polygons to ensure they are closed and that they don't overlap.