All, Well, I'm actually working on something like this right now, at least building all the components needed to accomplish it. I did consider commercializing such a beast, but the sales side of the equation is beyond my available time right now. But you never know what will happen.
Should be integrated enough to demonstrate in a couple of months if you are still in need. The Cloud aspect is simply a configuration/setup in the scheme of things. The trick is in setting up the services to be scalable when cloud bases, so that the cloud aspects are used accordingly. bobb >>> 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
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