by Peter Neubauer,
Neo Technology
The FOSS4G Conference, Barcelona and Malmö, Sweden - September 13, 2010 - Neo Technology together with AmanziTel and Cloudmade announces Neo4j Spatial, the first and only geospatial component for a graph database. Geospatial data is naturally suited to graph representation and storage in a high performance graph database like Neo4j. The Neo4j Spatial project supports the use of geographic data by providing utilities that simplify and support advanced capabilities like:
- Storage of geographic features like points, lines and polygons as graphs
- Indexing and querying based on location with R-trees, Quad-trees and other structures
- Spatial operations for GIS and Location Based Services
- Import/Export from existing industry standard formats like shapefiles
- Exposure of any Neo4j traversal as dynamic layers with points, multilines or polygons
- Construction of geographic operations from arbitrary combinations of traversals and relevant properties in the Neo4j graph
- Support for well known libraries and applications such as:
- Geotools - providing Geo-APIs for Java
- uDIG - an RCP-based Desktop GIS system
- Geoserver - serving WMS, WFS, KML and other spatial web standards
- OpenStreetMap - the worlds largest Wiki for spatial data.
"We are very excited to team up with Neo Technology, the creators of Neo4j Spatial. The OpenStreetMap dataset can be modeled as a huge graph structure. By loading it into the Neo4j Spatial graph, we expect to be able to extract exciting new data and relationships based on the wealth of geographically connected content in OpenStreetMap, the world's biggest, crowd-sourced database. These capabilities will surface in the coming months in various Cloudmade products and services" said Jim Brown, CTO Cloudmade.
Neo4j Spatial is already in use by a growing community of partners and projects including:
- Cloudmade, providing premium services on top of the OpenStreetMap dataset
- AWE mobile network data analysis by AmanziTel
- Future Position X - advancing the public use of spatial data in Sweden
This is just the first step. While Neo4j Spatial is already powerful, we will continue to apply graph structures to complex spatial problems like routing, topology analysis and spatial statistics and move GIS into the mainstream of Open Source development.
About Neo Technology
Neo Technology is the developer of Neo4j, the world’s leading open source graph database. In 24/7 production since 2003, Neo4j is available in open source under AGPLv3 and commercial license terms. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com
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