MI-L "Oracle 8i Spatial: distance units?"

[Pleus, Melanie, MTC-DTM, MPL]

Hello!

Please help me. I am in conflict with the oracle spatialobject funtions

- sdo_geom.sdo_distance                
and
- sdo_geom.sdo_within_distance


If I calculate the distance between two points like this,

(           mdsys.sdo_geom.sdo_distance(
                                                                  
      mdsys.sdo_geometry (2001, null,
        
mdsys.sdo_point_type(1339252,5251230,null)  
                                                  ,null,null),
          
          
        mdsys.sdo_geometry (2001, null,
        
mdsys.sdo_point_type(998626,5354891,null)  
                                                  ,null,null),
          
          
        0.01);
)

I don´t know the unit type of the result.
what does the result, in the discribed case it is  356050,101526457 , mean?
what is that in meter?

Is there a way to set the unit type before using the function?





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