SimpleGeo Launches ‘Storage’: A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data

[atularora]

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/28/simplegeo-launches-storage-a-distributed-hosted-database-for-location-data/

[alexgandy]

I might be a bit paranoid, but I'm a little hesitant to use a service like this when there's really no mention (yet) of the liberties I'd expect them to want to take with the data.

[dominostars]

Wouldn't latency cancel out any advantage their faster algorithm might have?

[gumbo]

Nice idea. Good luck. Added the documentation of Place to my bookmarks, will review this this week-end.

Is it possible to just retrieve the POI you add using the API? Is it possible to restrict access to your own POI?

[wan23]

25 cents per 1000 calls? Is that a reasonable price? If you were to have an ad-supported page that requires a call to the DB then you would need to have 25 cents CPM just to break even.