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WeoGeo is Finalist in Amazon Startup Challenge
WeoGeo, discussed in an earlier blog, has been named as a finalist in Amazon’s Startup Challenge. I think they really deserve it. Wish them luck!
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MapReduce for Large Geodatasets
Here‘s an interesting video where Google describes how they use MapReduce to build connectivity in their street data. In ESRI terminology, this how they clean and build topology using parallel...
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Geoprocessing Sandboxes as a Service
Though I haven’t used it in production, I really like the ESRI geoprocessing server concept. ESRI’s approach involves authoring, publishing and consuming. However, from what I can tell, it requires...
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Parallel GeoProcessing
A large city here in Texas has done a highly detailed sidewalk inventory. In addition, they’ve created “missing sidewalk” segments representing places where sidewalks could be constructed. In order to...
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Amazon Dynamo
This graph is from a paper on Amazon’s Dynamo. I suspect other months (not during shopping season) would look quite different. With a name like “Elastic Compute Cloud”, I would expect the price for EC2...
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A GeoWeb Use Case (for lack of a better name)
Sean Gillies has problems with GeoWeb as a term. Others have been getting annoyed about the professional vs. amateur labels. Names can be such limiting things, especially when we’re experiencing...
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Amazon EBS – Persistence for EC2
Looks like Amazon’s new EBS service addresses a major pain of working with EC2 – persistence.
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AWS and GoGrid: Sql Server 2008 before 2009?
Amazon Web services has announced availability of Sql Server 2008 AMI’s for EC2. Randy George at GIS in XML has a good comparison of GoGrid and AWS. I emailed GoGrid asking about Sql Server 2008...
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Amazon Public Datasets: Where’s the Geography?
Last month Amazon rolled out Public Datasets. They do have map data – but it’s for mapping the Human Genome. I hope to see some spatial data there soon. If you have a public domain or non-proprietary...
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PUG Conference
Here’s a summary of my thoughts after attending Monday and (half of) Tuesday at the ESRI Petroleum User Group (PUG) conference. The Interp/GIS Gap In the Operation Database panel, Bill Burroughs...
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