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Amazon Web Services Challenge Features WeoGeo

posted by Satri on Wednesday December 05, @01:34PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the geospatial-can-win dept.

All Points Blog offers coverage with Spatially Adjusted on WeoGeo, a geospatial startup which successfully accessed the finals of the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge. From the contest's website: "WeoGeo creates a one-stop marketplace for mapping using Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. WeoGeo supplies surveyors, engineers, cartographers, and scientists with the ability to conveniently store, search, and exchange high-resolution CAD and GIS mapping products. Mappers easily list their data for sale and researchers quickly find the data they need." APB also have a podcast with WeoGeo's Paul Bissett and a graphic tour of their product. It's the last day to vote on Amazon's website. Good luck to WeoGeo! Dan Dye, working for WeoGeo is also a contributor to Slashgeo.

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• WeoGeo did not win...

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  by Satri (3) on Monday December 10, @12:27PM (#2046)
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