Well I haven't let go of the idea and am in the process of releasing a GIS data processing platform, but that's a story for another day. My thought is that all

Well I haven't let go of the idea and am in the process of releasing a GIS data processing platform, but that's a story for another day. My thought is that all data, especially large datasets from the top down only has a few ways it can be displayed and sliced. Relationships, multi temporal (slicing and or playing by time but then also playing back multiple time sections so they can be compared. compute vs. real time, time to exec on server vs time experienced by user, and also finding various time slices to compare. So multi temporal being that your timeline playback isn't just a film strip), and spatial. The ground truth for all data is that it happens somewhere in the world so a graph should be able to be put into a GIS space for display, bonus points for 3D, but then also you should be able to build composite fake GIS spaces and visualize the relationships between them. Like for instance, your products network traffic all going to colocation spaces and to users and back again. That has normal GIS locations and that can provide constraints for graph display but also, especially in a distributed system there may be artificial geography that can be defined, lets call it "The Astral Plane" that has relationships that are important and grouping just like state and country boundaries that can be defined in shape files and put into a spatial database in a projection you just make up or is defined by the graph data and physical locations and you should be able to slide between all those things. That's where I wanna go and still intend to get to. EDIT: Obviously when I say everything has GIS coordinates I'm not quite talking about outer space, but I think outer space is even covered by the rest of this idea. So is tiny space. This realization came to me when I was reading about people using PostGIS as a database for chemistry simulation. I have no link for that, I haven't thought about it in years, but now that I'm talking about it, I'll try to find it and post a link if I find it as I would like to readdress.