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Aug 27, 2022
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.3.
Install the new version from the Postgis Community website here
Release details at: https://postgis.net/2022/08/27/postgis-3.3.0-released/
July 23, 2022
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.2.2.
Install the new version from the Postgis Community website here
Release details at: https://postgis.net/2022/07/23/postgis-3.2.2/
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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.
Hectares BC – Biodiversity BC on behalf of a broad partnership
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.
Automated Route Planning for Meter Reading – City of Vancouver
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.