And you are here why?

SpaceCurve just scored $2.7M in new funding. And, why do you care? Well, you may not, but they are doing something interesting vis-a-vis the merging of BigData and Spatial Data .  And yes, that is a deliberately vague description, but thats pretty much how things work in the BigData world nowadays, don't you think? Seriously though, think of it this way -   Spatial data is not inherently easy to deal with in traditional terms (think How do I get the distance between two points?  How do I find all the data-elements in this cube? etc. ).  The big SQL players all have Spatial extensions to their DBs , as well as some of the NoSQL players ( CouchDB , MongoDB , and Cassandra ).  Now, add in "Location Services" - where you need to keep track of not just data scattered in space, but time too.  e.g., Your Foursquare check-ins last week, your GPS readings last week, etc. And *then*, add in connections between the entities generating this data....