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27th October 2008 - Link Blog

GeoCouch: Geospatial queries with CouchDB. Interesting approach: uses “external2”, a branch that allows external services to be called from CouchDB. SQLite’s SpatiaLite extension is then used as an external spacial index.

Posted 27th October 2008 at 11:48 pm

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