Humphrey, it really depends on what you're looking for. Google Fusion Tables and Maps Data API will do basic hosting and visualization. Currently, they don't do advanced queries. So it really depends on what you're looking for.
Mano Marks Geo Developer Advocate http://twitter.com/ManoMarks On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
