Hi co-founder of SpacialDB here. Cloud hosted PostGIS is already available as a Heroku plugin, stand-alone and an easy to use API. Check out http://devcenter.spacialdb.com/ for documentation and you can sign up via the Heroku addons page or http://beta.spacialdb.com/
I have visualized this "Brick-Wall" as a graph with data from Wikipedia pdf: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3215373/Thermal-Brick-Wall.pdf