https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/geofencing/ Recent content in Geofencing on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-15-self-hosted-geofencing-spatial-query-engines-tile38-postgis-redis/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-15-self-hosted-geofencing-spatial-query-engines-tile38-postgis-redis/ <h2 id="why-self-host-your-location-infrastructure">Why Self-Host Your Location Infrastructure?</h2> <p>Location-aware applications—ride-sharing, delivery tracking, store locators, asset tracking—depend on fast spatial queries. Every &ldquo;find drivers within 5km&rdquo; or &ldquo;show restaurants near me&rdquo; query requires a spatial database that can efficiently search millions of geographic points. Commercial location APIs charge per request and introduce latency; self-hosting gives you sub-millisecond query performance at fixed infrastructure cost.</p>