Doug McCune and Universal Mind just announced the launch their new baby,  SpatialKey, a geospatial information visualization product.

If you have enough of those markers on web-based maps, you will love SpatialKey :  you will be able to render heatmaps, heat grids or graduated circles by just uploading a simple CSV files ! As a technology preview, we have only access to a  small part of the capabilities of SpatialKey, but it’s already so AWESOME !

The demos include four visualization templates : Animation/Playback, Map Comparison, Drill Down and Temporal Heat Index. I was really impressed by the Wal-Mart store openings (1962 – 2005) demo (just click the play button ), the Sacramento crimes (November 2007) drill down demo but also the BrightKite check-ins (April 28 – May 19, 2008) demo. Check the Gallery.

There will be different solutions available :

• SpatialKey Personal, that will let you easily import your own data.
• SpatialKey Enterprise, that will let you load a data set of any size.
• SpatialKey Law Enforcement Dashboard, enterprise version of SpatialKey specifically targeted toward police departments.
• SpatialKey Custom Solutions

For more details, read Doug’s blog post, go to the SpatialKey website (join the beta !) and read their dedicated blog. I cannot wait to be able to use my own set of datas especially when I read [...]

Early this Fall, we will release a desktop AIR application that allows you to load your own geotemporal datasets (through an importer that geocodes addresses if necessary) into the visualization templates