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I'm a geolocation fan and developer from a long time, so always watched and tested Simplegeo. But it seems they never got too much traction because their platfo
by rabc 15y ago
I'm a geolocation fan and developer from a long time, so always watched and tested Simplegeo. But it seems they never got too much traction because their platform is very specific, even for geolocation systems (someone correct me if I'm wrong, please).
Yes, they have a pretty big apps showcase, but it's not enough sometimes.
Anyway, if they get acquired by Urban Airship, it will be great. UA will have a better use for their platform (and UA will need geolocation soon), and I'm happy Simplegeo will have a good use (what they built is really awesome, if you understand geolocation).
- oldstrangers 15y agoKind of off topic, but can you recommend some services similar to simplegeo?
- lpolovets 15y agoDisclosure: I work at Factual. Factual provides an API for businesses in the US and around the world. In fact, SimpleGeo partnered with us for some of their data. Other alternatives you can consider are FourSquare, Google Places, etc. Each alternative has it's own pricing structure and terms and conditions. You can browse some of our POI data by going to http://www.factual.com/topic/places http://www.factual.com/topic/places
- rabc 15y agoFoursquare is good for a simple and fast list of places, but the data inside that is incomplete sometimes. This Factual is new to me and seems good, I will see it better later (big list of places for Brazil, exactly what I need sometimes).
- rabc 15y agoI don't know any other service like Simplegeo. MongoDB has some pretty good geo-aware methods worth looking.
- gregsadetsky 15y agoUrban Mapping - http://www.urbanmapping.com/ http://www.urbanmapping.com/ - for data [ http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog http://developer.urbanmapping.com/content/Data-Catalog ] and custom map rendering [ http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence http://www.urbanmapping.com/product/mapfluence ].
- dannyr 15y agohttp://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Places-API http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-each-Plac...
- clojurerocks 15y agoI was just looking into the geolocation issue myself recently. Looked at simplegeo but decided against it. The question really is what is your app going to do. The difficulty really with geolocation these days isnt the lack of data points rather its figuring out the needs of your application and whether or not these services will fit into that. In reality even with these services location based apps are still a pain to develop.
- jchrisa 15y agoCouchbase now includes the GeoCouch R-tree indexer by default: http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension http://blog.couchbase.com/new-release-geocouch-extension This is the same indexer that is powering open gov't projects around the world: http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog http://maxogden.com/#blog/diy-open-data-catalog
- simon_kun 15y agoIf you mean tech as opposed to their data offerings, you should take a look at CartoDB http://www.cartodb.com http://www.cartodb.com. All the power of PostGIS with a lot of the pain points rounded off.
- chenli 15y agoDisclaimer: I am the founder of Bimaple.com. Bimaple provides powerful location-based search services. Check omniplaces.com for a demonstration site that supports instant, error-tolerant search on more than 17 million business listings. Customers can build a search application easily using our product.