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Geographic Location
This chapter provides information about the Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management (UIM) features that enable you to define the geographical aspects of your inventory. There are two ways to model geographic locations in UIM:
Place entities are hierarchical in nature. They enable you to define locations as parts of geographical hierarchies such as Country - Province - City - Area. See "Places" for more information.
Property Location entities are optimized for defining the locations of devices and services in your network. See "Property Locations" for more information.
You can include property locations in the hierarchies of Place entities. For example, you could create property locations for sites that host equipment and include them in the hierarchies of Place entities that represent geographic areas.
Places
You use Place specifications to define geographic entities that can be located on a map, such as a state, city, street, postal address, campus, or building. Place entities answer the business question of where other inventory entities (such as subscribers, services, equipment, service terminations, and so on) are located.
There are four types of Place specification that describe different geographical entities:
Location defines places based on geographic references.
Address defines ways to locate places based on textual information.
Address Range defines a group of addresses as a range, such as an address defined with a low street number and high street number.
Site defines places that do not have a single, precise location, such as a regional office. They can also be used for places that may change physical locations over time., such as a cell site. Because sites are only loosely defined, they can evolve over time. For example, you might need to plan a VPN without knowing the specific locations of the VPN sites. You can create configurations to keep track of the changes.
UIM includes a related entity type, called Location, that you use specifically to represent locations related to connectivity. See "Property Locations" for more information.
Note:
Location entities and Location-type Place entities are not equivalent. They are used for different purposes and have different capabilities.
Geographic Coordinates
You can add geocodes to Place entities to identify their placement and to enable geographic visualizations of your network or business. See UIM System Administrator's Guide and UIM Developer's Guide for more information about setting up geocoding.
You can use one of two coordinate systems:
The universal geographic coordinate system based on latitude and longitude. You must use decimal degrees to enter latitude and longitude. For example, a Dallas location can be expressed in decimal degrees of 32.93499 and -97.00791.