Location Based Applications, Games and Social Networks

We’re building location based social networking applications using the following tools:

GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.

Being a community-driven project, GeoServer is developed, tested, and supported by a diverse group of individuals and organizations from around the world.

GeoServer is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS) standards, as well as a high performance certified compliant Web Map Service (WMS). GeoServer forms a core component of the Geospatial Web.

We run GeoServer over Amazon EC2 instances.

Local lucene is an effort to provide geographical search capibilities to Java Lucene.
Local lucene is not a search engine in itself but the libaries and capabilieties to create one, Lucene provides the text searching capibilities and locallucene provides the geographical nature.

SimpleGeo is a hosted, super-fast, geographically aware database tuned specifically for querying and storing location data.

OS OpenSpace is built upon an Open Source library called OpenLayers. The OpenLayers project provides a standard open mapping JavaScript framework, supported by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo).

ArchAlert

Combining Local SOLR, GeoServer and OS OpenSpace we’ve created a public facing Archaeology Alert System to meet PPS5