As we're on this subject... a friend asked me recently if I knew a way to get 
AppEngine to do bounding box requests, as far as he could tell it wasn't 
possible, I had a look and I couldn't see a way either. I think perhaps the 
issue was that he was using the GeoPt type but there's no way to access the 
lat/lon from within it in a search so if he just stored the lat/lon as separate 
fields that might work better. It's not something I've looked at too much but 
if anyone can offer a suggestion that would be good.

He was originally asking my about geohashing in case that would help but as far 
as I could tell it has the same problem as quadtiles in that if you're on the 
edge of a big tile you don't find stuff on the next tile. As it was a UK based 
app the meridian is likely to cause problems there.

John

On 21 Nov 2009, at 02:00, Ivan Lucena wrote:

> Oracle Spatial does work in the EC2 environment. Once you have an EC2 account 
> you can go to OTN , http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/cloud/index.html, 
> and get an EC2 kit. That means Features, 3D Point Cloud, Raster, the whole 
> package.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Raj Singh [[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 2:29 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Geowanking] do cloud databases do spatial?
> 
> So, does Amazon SimpleDB do spatial?
> http://aws.amazon.com/simpledb/
> 
> Or how about MS SQL Azure?
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sqlazure/
> 
> Any others to know about?
> 
> ---
> Raj
> 
> 
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