SimpleGeo? ... Google Maps Data API? ... OpenGeo Community AWS Edition?... cant see anyone that would ever offer a *hosted* PostGIS, MapServer solution. Perhaps I'm wrong?
Jeff On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Ian White <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh boy. I feel you just opened up a can of worms. Much as I'd love to tout my > company's geo-cloud offerings, this isn't the venue. Much of this depends on > what you want to do. The easiest thing out there might be google fusion > tables. Totally great, but not a true enterprise solution. But free, and > people seem to like that > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Humphrey Southall > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 1:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Geowanking] Cloud hosting of geo-spatial databases > > Does anyone offer cloud hosting of geo-spatial databases? > > Obviously, Amazon web services will host pretty much anything so long as you > install and maintain the software, but I am looking for someone who maintains > the necessary database. > > Preferably Postgres / PostGIS / MapServer > > ====================================================== > Amazon EC2 Relational Database is basically MySQL, for example: > http://aws.amazon.com/running_databases. They do provide some kind of > Postgres image, but it seems designed primarily to support Ruby on Rails, and > as it is described as "provided by Sun Microsystems" its future sounds > cloudy! I have also looked at the three cloud providers mentioned in the > Postgres FAQ, but none sound interested in geospatial. > > NB this is more about long-term requirements than an immediate need, so I > would be pleased to hear about people starting up. > > Thanks for any suggestions > > Humphrey Southall > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
