Sanjay Patel
Head of Maps for
Business - EMEA
Google
UK
ABSTRACT
Google’s Geospatial Cloud Computing Platform
In our relentless pursuit to map the world, Google has spent years building the world’s largest GIS. We process petabytes of satellite and aerial imagery, render millions of map tiles on the fly daily for serving to
maps.google.com and through our Maps API, and process and (after moderation) publish millions of user-submitted corrections to our basemap. Beyond the services that create our maps, we’ve also purpose-built the worlds largest geospatial global decision engine, capable of on-demand multi-spectral imagery and vector analysis -- with a goal of permitting our users to make informed decisions from Google’s mapping data.
Despite this abundance of data, the ability to store, manage, and process it as Google does has typically been the domain of large institutions, requiring specialist training and a frequently massive investment in storage and computing power. This talk will focus on several key technologies powering Google’s geospatial cloud computing platform, on how we’ve begun exposing these geospatial services for anyone to use, and will showcase several examples of customers using the services to help them solve their real-world problems.