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
>
>
>
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