WeoGeo
I just heard a podcast from Directions Magazine about a new, online marketplace for geospatial data products called WeoGeo. WeoGeo allows data owners to catalog their data holdings for sale. Buyers may visit the site, find the data that they want and purchase it for download or off line delivery. this user interface for the buyer is very easy to use and slick looking. It even incorporates a KML generation preview of the dataset before you purchase so that you may view it, in context, in Google Earth.
This approach is not a new idea but it is so elegantly executed that it may just succeed. Apparently, the backend is built using Amazon's web services. Admittedly, I have not seen the publisher interface but if the buyer interface is any indication, the seller process will be straightforward.
WeoGeo takes the concept that ESRI has been pushing for years with their geography network and ArcIMS Metadata Server and makes it easy. I wonder how much commerce has actually occurred thru the Geography Network site?
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Thanks for the compliments. Feel free to check out the publisher interface. We've opened it up, but are being a little quiet about it until we make sure there are no hidden kinks.
You may want to check out this follow up to the podcast, where I try and fill in some of the details as to why we created WeoGeo. I posted today about some of our use of KML features.
Thanks again.
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