Recent News

Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of our new self-paced PostGIS training course.

The course includes:

• Approximately 3-hours of instructor video covering the topics listed below
• A 100+ page workbook that also provides a great ongoing reference manual
• Example data and exercises for all topics as well as an answer key for reference

Topics covered are listed at http://refractions.net/products/postgis/training/

The PostGIS team is proud to announce the release of version 1.5.3. This is a minor release addressing a few issues that have been filed since the 1.5.2 release in addition to fixes that allow it to compile against PostgreSQL 9.1beta.

Refractions is offering a 2-day "Introduction and Usage of PostGIS" course on December 2nd and 3rd. Please call us at 1-250-383-3022 or email us at info@refractions.net if you are interested in attending.

See our promotional video here for a brief overview of the course.

The uDig 1.2 release process is complete and we are pleased to offer uDig 1.2.0 for download. This release is made in conjunction with GeoTools 2.6.5. The uDig 1.2.0 release is available from the main download page.

The 1.5.0 release of PostGIS is now available. This is a major release adding a significant number of new features including:

• New "geography" type for managing geodetic (lat/lon) data
• Performance-enhanced distance calculations
• GML and KML format readers
• Improved shape loading GUI
• And more!