Geodata + CouchDB = GeoCouch

Public geospatial data repositories seem to be an increasingly popular application lately. Especially when you see SimpleGeo receive $8 Million in VC money to continue to develop their geospatial service. I’ll be writing about SimpleGeo and their usage of Cassandra in later posts.

Anyway, I digress this post is about an open source geospatial service built on top of CouchDB. The presentation, by Volker Mische creator/developer of GeoCouch, gives the standard introduction to CouchDB and the benefits it has to offer its users schema free, high concurrency and replication just to name a few. It’s a good and quick read.

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