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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.

PostGIS for fast prototyping and Research

Apr 4, 2016 casestudy · 2 min read Rémi Cura · academic phd power usage

I used extensively postgis (+ecosystem) for my phd thesis, in several ways. The first is that PostGIS is a good steady horse (elephant?): a database is the perfect place to store a lot of very different information in the same place and put them in relation. For geospatial data, postgis means you always have a way to …

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 …

Clever Maps

Mar 17, 2016 casestudy · 2 min read Michal Zimmermann · web apps cz

Clever°Maps' is a three years old startup based in the Czech Republic. We create web apps for four distinct market segments:

business/location inteligence - helping companies to make decisions based on data, not on feelings
farming - simplifying agenda and everyday work
road infrastructure administration - settlement …

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 …

Institut Géographique National

Oct 18, 2012 casestudy · 4 min read Paul Ramsey · geoconcept france

The Institut Géographique National (IGN) is the national mapping agency for France, with 1800 employees and a mandate to collect, integrate, manage and distribute reference geographical information for the whole country.

InfoTerra

Oct 17, 2012 casestudy · 3 min read Paul Ramsey · imagery uk

Infoterra has been in the geospatial business for over 25 years, since its founding in 1980 as the UK National Remote Sensing Centre. In that time, NRSC grew, formed international partnerships with space agencies, expanded into aerial data collection, and was eventually privatized and re-named "Infoterra" in …