Overview - Geospatial Utilities

Teradata Geospatial Utilities User Guide

Product
Geospatial Utilities
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-07
dita:id
B035-2519
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Teradata GeoImport converts layers from ESRI, MapInfo, and TIGER/Line data sources and loads the data into the database.

Figure 1 shows data flow and component arrangement for Teradata GeoImport.

Figure 1: Teradata GeoImport Data Flow

Teradata GeoImport loads data from Shape files like TIGER, MAPInfo, ESRI and KML to Teradata Database. If the size of row including geometry column is less than 64k, FastLoad protocol is used. Otherwise, LOB connection is used while loading data.