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WeoGeo Incorporated is a market place for geospatial content. WeoGeo was co-founded by Paul Bisset and David Kohler. The company focuses on developing the best content library, hosting, and market place service for the mapping industry. It enables surveyors, engineers, cartographers, and scientists the ability to store, search, and exchange raster, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping products. WeoGeo (TM) is an integrated software and processing solution for controlling mapping archives. It enables controlled sharing and map customization. The WeoGeo (TM) server makes it easy to build derivative maps with the specific properties, including geo-cropping, data layers, and spatial resolution. Users can add their maps into WeoGeo’s national market, which enable unlimited sales of each map. The company holds an institutional library with powerful search and delivery tool that enable the finding of right map. The company employs Amazon Web services of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) services to satisfy the scalability demands of geospatial processing and ecommerce. Amazon’s EC2 eliminates up-front costs and offers flexible processing capability to accommodate fluctuating demand. Amazon’s S3 provides Internet storage. The partners of the company are Earthstar Geographics LLC, Safe Software, and Aerials Express. Oregon Business Magazine has named WeoGeo as on of ‘the ten coolest tech startups’ in 2008. WeoGeo was one among the seven finalists for the Amazon Web Services Start-Up challenge in 2007. WeoGeo can be located on the Web at www.weogeo.com.
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