IBM Cloudant describe the geospatial tools used in their database-as-a-service offering (DBaaS). Based upon Apache CouchDB, the geospatial extensions used by IBM Cloudant rely on a number of well known open source libraries to provide geospatial indexing, query and projection support to Apache CouchDB. Discussion topics include: - Overview of the architecture & tools - Best practices for building geospatial apps with NoSQL doc stores - Use cases for leveraging geospatial capabilities of a NoSQL doc store