The data structure is not a conventional GIS but an ontology/GIS hybrid; relational capabilities are very much required. In the nearer term, we are planning on putting a sub-set restructured as RDF into the Talis triple store, but that loses much of the geography:
http://www.talis.com/platform The data structure includes a lot of everything -- statistics, text, digital boundaries, geo-referenced map images. The boundaries are mainly for historical rather than modern units. Google Fusion looks to be a system for managing tables of statistics, including a facility for visualising your data as maps using Google's boundary files. I would be VERY surprised if Google could match our collection of historical boundaries. Our architecture for holding statistics is also probably incompatible with Google Fusion, as we don't use datasets, we hold metadata for each individual data item. Humphrey >>> Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> 04/10/2010 16:46 >>> 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
