We made it into private beta yesterday. The infrastructure development on Amazon Web Services (AWS) took a little more time than anticipated, but more on that later. The home page at www.weogeo.com should give an indication of what we are trying to accomplish. This page will change shortly, as we move through the private beta period. What can be seen is that we are setting up a place for buyers and sellers of mapping products to exchange their maps (called WeoGeo Exchange), as well as a place for them to talk about their maps, to discuss new developments, and to define definitions and concepts that are important to the geospatial community (called WeoGeo Community).

We are going to shake the system down for a couple of weeks. The technical hurtles that we cleared (hope to have cleared) in the development of this site have been large. Providing the ability to exchange terabytes of maps in an easy, accessible manner, which includes map searching, sorting, digital rights management, financial transactions, and map delivery, all on top of Amazon’s EC2, which is still in beta itself, has been a challenge. We think we have done it, and are now ready to start showing it.

If you are interested in seeing and discussing what we are doing, please register. We are passionate about this field and the technology, and look forward to working with all those who share our passion.