SimpleGeo
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SimpleGeo is a Boulder-based startup now beta-testing its line of software development tools, cloud storage, and other must-haves for mobile application developers who want to easily build location-based services into their apps. The firm has gathered a $1.5 million first round of investment from familiar names in the Valley VC world. Co-founder and CEO Matt Galligan confirmed that bicoastal firm First Round Capital led the round.
Why startup SimpleGeo abandoned game making to sell location too
SimpleGeo $1.5 Million And Many Big Name Investors
There is a lot of buzz around SimpleGeo right now. The service, which participated in our RealTime CrunchUp earlier this month, also took home two prizes at the Under The Radar conference just prior to that . And that was a big deal for the company considering it won the audience award even though it’s not exactly the most consumer-oriented project.
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SimpleGeo Founder Joe Stump Talks Up Location-As-A-Service (Video)
Editor’s note : This post was written by Joe Stump , the co-founder of SimpleGeo , a geolocation infrastructure company. While much of the focus in location these days is on the front-end side of things, SimpleGeo focuses on the backend, allowing startups to very easily get started with geolocation.
Location Isn’t A War Between Two Sides, It’s A Gold Rush For Everyone
Location is going to be big, that seems to be the consensus among geeks, but just how big is it going to be?
SimpleGeo Now Indexing 1m+ Locations Per Hour
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PolyMaps Examples
This tileset has a calm, restrained style designed to work well with lots of data points. It’s less about the geographical information as such, and more about providing a suitable background to foreground information. You know, for when you’re Jason Bourne and you’re on the run from the man and you break into the command center and you pull up the secret map interface? That one. Want to show what Earth looks like from space?SimpleGeo and Stamen Design have partnered to produce Polymaps , a JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG, that can be used by developers to build dynamic mapping apps. According to the website, “Polymaps provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, Bing” and other image-based web maps. In a blog post , SimpleGeo said that the project has been available online as source code on Github for awhile, but now they’ve officially launched the service.
