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by mikeatlas 4007 days ago
It's great to see you (jandrewrogers) of SpaceCurve reply to correctly to the question! Your blog post on why Geospatial Databases are Hard has long influenced me and a handful of others I've run into thinking about all of this.

Geohashed (X+Y) points in Redis is only peripherally related to actual geospatial database concerns, particularly big-data or ("NoSQL") spatial database concerns - how do you efficiently index anything other than point data (polygons, multi_polygons), or ask spatial queries (e.g., nearest neighbors) is not even close to being addressed.

Blog post here for reference: http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2015/03/02/geospatial-databases...