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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Nov 3, 2018 casestudy · 2 min read Tom Kazimiers · bioinformatics neuroscience research us

As a software engineer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, I work on a collaborative neuron reconstruction and analysis software called CATMAID 1 2 (screenshot: 3), which is used for neuroscience research. We use PostGIS to represent neurons in a 3D space.

Vanguard Appraisals

Nov 2, 2018 casestudy · 4 min read Andy Colson · property appraisal us

Vanguard Appraisals is new to the GIS world. In fact, we aren't really in the GIS world; we just kind of brush up against it. We do mass property appraisal for entire county and city jurisdictions, and we develop software to collect, price and maintain values. We also host assessment data online so that homeowners …

Nautilytics Case Study

Apr 5, 2016 casestudy · 2 min read Christopher Lanoue · data visualization government agriculture decision support tile server us ghana brazil

Nautilytics is a small data visualization and GIS startup based out of Boston, MA. We use PostGIS and PostgreSQL, among other open-source tools to build powerful web applications for US government organizations, public, and private sector companies.

Plenario (Univeristy of Chicago)

Mar 29, 2016 casestudy · 3 min read William Engler · university urban research us

The Urban Center for Computation and Data (UrbanCCD) is a research initiative of Argonne National Laboratory and the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago. We create computational tools to better understand cities. One of these is Plenario, our hub for open geospatial data. PostGIS makes the spatial …

Vanguard Appraisals

Mar 17, 2016 casestudy · 3 min read Andy Colson · property appraisal us

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Vanguard Appraisals is new to the GIS world. In fact, we aren't really in the GIS world; we just kind of brush up against it. We do mass property appraisal for entire county and city jurisdictions, and we develop software to collect, price and maintain values. We also host …