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We combine proprietary and open source components into innovative and cost-effective solutions to our clients' problems. </div> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> <div id="logo_row"> <div id="wordmark"><a href="/"><img src="/images/wordmark.png" alt="Refractions Research" width="450" height="42" border="0" /></a></div> <div id="logo"><a href="/"><img src="/images/logo.png" alt="Refractions Research" width="41" height="40" border="0" /></a></div> </div> <div id="nav_row"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>  <li><a href="/products/">Our Products</a></li> <li><a href="/expertise/">Our Services</a></li> <li><a href="/company/">Company</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="photo_row"></div> </div>  <div id="content"> <div id="breadcrumbs"><p><a href="./">Home</a></p></div> <div id="three_left"> <h1>News</h1> <div class="listitem"> <p class="listitem-title"><a href="company/news/20230816/">PostGIS 3.4.0 Released</a></p> <p class="listitem-subtitle">Aug 16, 2023</p> <div class="listitem-content"> <p>The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.4.0 </p> <p> Details at: <a href="https://postgis.net/2023/08/PostGIS-3.4.0/">https://postgis.net/2023/08/PostGIS-3.4.0/</a> </p> </div>  <p class="listitem-readmore"><a href="company/news/20230816/">Read more...</a></p> <div class="hr"></div></div>  <div class="listitem"> <p class="listitem-title"><a href="company/news/20230401/">SMART 7.5 Released</a></p> <p class="listitem-subtitle">Apr 1, 2023</p> <div class="listitem-content"> <p> Refractions is happy to announce the release of SMART 7.5! Download the new version from the SMART Partnership website here <a href="https://smartconservationtools.org/Download/Download-SMART-7"> https://smartconservationtools.org/Download/Download-SMART-7 </a> </div>  <p class="listitem-readmore"><a href="company/news/20230401/">Read more...</a></p> <div class="hr"></div></div>  <p><a href="company/news/rss.php"><img src="company/news/xml.gif" border="0" width="36" height="14"' align="absmiddle" /></a>   <a href="company/news">More News...</a></p> </div>  <div id="three_main"> <h1>We are the <i><a href="expertise">Geospatial Experts</a></i></h1> <p class="description">We have been building software systems that add geographic intelligence to enterprise business processes <b>since 1998</b>. We have expertise in Java, PostGIS, FME, ESRI, Oracle Spatial and more. We can build custom software systems integrating proprietary and open source components into innovative and cost-effective solutions to our clients' problems. </p>  <table><tr><td width="200px"> <h2>Geospatial Technology</h2> <p>We <a href="expertise/technology">keep on top</a> of the latest changes in enterprise spatial and web mapping technologies. Technologies from Google (Maps, Earth and KML), ESRI (ArcGIS), and Oracle (IAS, Spatial, Designer, Database) are key components in the <a href="expertise/casestudies">solutions we build</a>.</p> <p class="center" style="background-color: white;"> <img src="images/googleearth-logo-40.gif" width="109" height="40" />  <img src="images/oracle-logo-40.gif" width="111" height="40" />  <img src="images/esri-logo-50.gif" width="41" height="50" />  <img src="images/mapguide-logo-40.gif" width="127" height="40" />  </p> <p>We are not a vendor, and we recommend solutions that make the best use of your existing physical intellectual capital. A Refractions solution is technically sound, economically feasible, and long-term maintainable.</p> </td><td> <h2>Open Source Experts</h2> <p>Refractions Research is a world leader in open source geospatial technology. We develop the <a href="products/postgis/">PostGIS</a> spatial database and the <a href="products/udig/">uDig</a> GIS desktop framework, and are active participants in many other open source projects.</p> <p class="center"> <img src="images/mapserver-logo-40.jpg" width="67" height="40" /> <img src="images/postgresql-logo-50.jpg" width="65" height="50" /> <img src="http://postgis.refractions.net/download/logo_suite/adbadge_wide/adbadge_wide_180.gif" alt="PostGIS" width="180" height="48" /> <img src="images/udig_logo.gif" width="104" height="27" alt="uDig" /> <img src="http://geoserver.org/img/geoserver-logo.png" width="104" alt="geoserver"/> <img src="http://leafletjs.com/docs/images/logo.png" width=104" alt="leafletJS"/> </p> <p>By using open source components, we can build geospatial systems that are flexible and inexpensive to deploy. Our clients like open source because it keeps costs down. We like open source because it gives us the freedom to innovate and build the best possible solutions.</p> </td></tr></table>  </div>  <div id="three_right"> <h1><a href='expertise/casestudies/'>Case Studies</a></h1> <div class="listitem"> <p class="listitem-title"><a href="expertise/casestudies/2015-01-smart/">SMART Conservation Software</a></p> <a href="expertise/casestudies/2015-01-smart/"><img class="listitem-image" src="expertise/casestudies/2015-01-smart/smart_logo_96.png" alt="SMART Conservation Software" /></a><p class="listitem-description"> The SMART partnership supports improved law enforcement and biological monitoring in protected areas around the world. They came to Refractions to build a software tool to help meet their needs.</p> <p class="listitem-readmore"><a href="expertise/casestudies/2015-01-smart/">Read more...</a></p> <div class="hr"></div></div>  <div class="listitem"> <p class="listitem-title"><a href="expertise/casestudies/2007-11-hectares-bc/">Hectares BC – Biodiversity BC on behalf of a broad partnership</a></p> <a href="expertise/casestudies/2007-11-hectares-bc/"><img class="listitem-image" src="expertise/casestudies/2007-11-hectares-bc/habc_logo_smsm.gif" alt="Hectares BC – Biodiversity BC on behalf of a broad partnership" /></a><p class="listitem-description">Biodiversity BC and its government and non-government partners were looking for regional-level environmental statistics. Refractions proposed a new approach to generating GIS summaries, using the power of a relational database and web tools to provide GIS analysis to users who previously had no access to it.</p> <p class="listitem-readmore"><a href="expertise/casestudies/2007-11-hectares-bc/">Read more...</a></p> <div class="hr"></div></div>  <div class="listitem"> <p class="listitem-title"><a href="expertise/casestudies/2007-10-vancouver/">Automated Route Planning for Meter Reading – City of Vancouver</a></p> <a href="expertise/casestudies/2007-10-vancouver/"><img class="listitem-image" src="expertise/casestudies/2007-10-vancouver/vancouver-logo_sm.jpg" alt="Automated Route Planning for Meter Reading – City of Vancouver" /></a><p class="listitem-description">The City of Vancouver collects water readings from thousands of residences and businesses, but has never optimized the pedestrian routes the readers take. Refractions developed algorithms to create the most efficient routes of the correct length for readers.</p> <p class="listitem-readmore"><a href="expertise/casestudies/2007-10-vancouver/">Read more...</a></p> <div class="hr"></div></div>  <p><a href="expertise/casestudies">More Case Studies...</a></p> </div>  <div class="zamboni"></div>  </div>  </div>  <div id="footer" style="color:#636363; font-size: 10px"> <a href="/internal/">Internal</a> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-1412902-4"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); </script> </body> </html>