I have been a bit delinquent in posting to this blog as of late. I am shaking the dust off of my blog because of the post that Jinesh Varia made about WeoGeo. Mapping, particularly quantitative mapping like GIS, and AWS go together like peanut butter and jelly (I have 3 small kids who have been out of school all summer, so this was the first analogy that came to mind). The utility computing of EC2 and the large web-addressable disk storage of S3 provide opportunities for developing and sharing of mapping products that previously were cost prohibitive. Being Jinesh’s favorite in this category is way cool (and I plan to send him a PB&J for lunch).
We have been very busy, with some real exciting things happening. I hope to share many of them shortly. One of the things we have been working on is the delivery of our first WeoGeo Server to the College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. You can see their front page here, but you have to register to get access. Access is currently limited to those involved with a red tide experiment in Monterey Bay, CA during September 2006. (We were involved in the NOAA experiment through FERI, operating our HyperSpectral Imaging (HSI) system.) In addition, we have been working on bringing the Seller site of WeoGeo Market out of Private Beta.
I know I have been remiss on posting, but between the kids’ summer vacation, the delivery of Server, beta responsibilities for WeoGeo and WeoCEO, and the scientific responsibilities of FERI, I have let the job of blog posting slide. I promise more posts on imaging sciences, GIS, and utility real soon.
