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Wednesday, December 2. 2009

Update 2: SimpleGeo: AWS for Location

Update 2: Rocky Radar has an interview with Galligan (who commented below).


--- update 11/30/09 ----

Update: C|net confirms a small first round of funding has been closed including investment from folks like Ron Conway, Digg founder Kevin Rose, ex-Googler Chris Sacca, ubiquitous personality Gary Vaynerchuk, and Delicious founder Joshua Schachter.

While there may be buzz in general tech land on this startup, there's not a lot of buzzing in geoland!

- C|net

--- original post 11/20/09 -----

Former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan are now offering a private beta of SimpleGeo, a "new infrastructure for location based services."

Per TechCrunch:
SimpleGeo is akin to an ‘Amazon Web Services’ for location: developers looking to integrate location based services (LBS) can plug into some simple APIs and SimpleGeo will do most of the legwork for them.

This description from an earlier TechCrunch post is more clear:
SimpleGeo is ready-to-use location infrastructure. They currently have three products: a geo-spatial Context Engine, Storage Engine and a comprehensive SDK. The SimpleGeo Context Engine enables application developers to quickly and easily get relevant information about specific locales including (but not limited to) ZIP codes, real-time weather, and geo-tagged media. Additionally, the SimpleGeo Storage Engine makes it possible to store and query location data in a scalable fashion, as well as perform complicated geospatial operations effortlessly.

I'm thinking the back end may be an open source stack...
Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 08:40 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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Your assumption that we are built on an open source stack is partially correct. We heavily modified an existing non-relational, multi-master database solution to allow for GIS capability. This allows us to be thoroughly redundant, ready to scale day one, and extremely fast (read: real time).

While it's doubtful we'll release that tech itself, we'll probably talk a bit about how we built it in the future (meaning the overall concepts). GIS inside of a non-relational database is a pretty difficult thing, as it turns out.
#1 Matt Galligan (Link) on 2009-11-30 12:40 (Reply)
great stuff matt!

I love the use of a non-relational database to power it, I'll agree that's its not easy to get it running (especially lines/polygons) but when its running it amazingly scalable. we happen to be using Google AppEngine but running your own non-relational on an EC2 cluster is also an option

cheers and congrats on SimpleGeo, I suspect the GIS world will be hearing a lot more about it in the coming months

brian
#1.1 Brian Flood (Link) on 2009-11-30 13:57 (Reply)
Sorry, I'm missing something. What is new here? A geospatial web service? Like ARC Web services from ESRI?
#2 Charles on 2009-12-01 19:40 (Reply)

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