Finding a place sounds simple.

A user enters a query, the system finds matching locations, and the results appear on the screen.

But once the system has to understand where those locations are, the problem becomes much more interesting.

For Oscar Awowari, Founder and CEO of LeeX, this is one of the foundational engineering challenges behind building a city discovery ecosystem. LeeX is not simply dealing with text search. It is working toward a system where businesses, events, infrastructure and other locations can be discovered in relation to geography.

That requires a dedicated geospatial search layer.