http://www.refractions.net/company/news Refractions Research http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20081015 Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of uDig 1.1. http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20080411 Refractions Research is celebrating an important milestone this year, as we have now been in business for 10 years. http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20080212 <p> <img src="/images/gsa.jpg" class="right" alt="GSA" /> The US <a href="http://www.gsa.gov/" target="_blank">General Services Administration</a> (GSA) has awarded Refractions Research a <a href="http://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/ScheduleSummary?scheduleNumber=70" target="_blank">Schedule 70</a> contract [<a href="http://www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov/ElibMain/ContractorInfo?contractNumber=GS-35F-0176U&contractorName=REFRACTIONS+RESEARCH+INC&executeQuery=YES" target="_blank">#GS-35F-0176U</a>] to provide general purpose commercial IT services. </p> <p> Refractions looks forward to working with US clients under this contract instrument and other GSA-based standing orders. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20071212 <p> Refractions Research is pleased to announce the release of the 3.0.0 version of the Geometry Engine, Open Source (GEOS). The GEOS library is used in numerous software packages, including AutoDesk's <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/mapguideenterprise">MapGuide Enterprise</a>, Safe Software's <a href="http://www.safe.com/fme/">FME</a>, and the <a href="http://www.refractions.net/products/postgis/">PostGIS</a> spatial database. </p> <p> With the 3.0.0 release, GEOS is moving into incubation with the <a href="http://www.osgeo.org">Open Source Geospatial Foundation</a>, to become an official project of the <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/geos">foundation</a>. Refractions will continue to take a lead role in the development and maintenance of GEOS, but will work as part of a formal &ldquo;Project Steering Committee&rdquo; that sets the direction and priorities of the project. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20070924 <p> Refractions is a <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/sponsors/refractions/">Gold Sponsor</a> of the <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org">Free &amp; Open Source Software for Geospatial</a> (FOSS4G) conference being held in Victoria, September 24-27. </p> <p>Refractions staff are serving as conference volunteers, teaching a <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/workshops/W-04/">workshop</a>, giving seven presentations [<a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=136">1</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=120">2</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=117">3</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=113">4</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=115">5</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=118">6</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/view.php?abstract_id=127">7</a>], and teaching two labs [<a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-08/">1</a>, <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-13/">2</a>]. Come visit the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10872440@N02/1459800396/">Refractions booth</a> in the exhibition hall. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20070110 <p> The annual <a href="http://www.foss4g2007.org">Free &amp; Open Source Software for Geospatial</a> (FOSS4G) will be hosted in Victoria this year, September 24-27. Refractions Research will be a Gold Sponsor of the event, which brings together developers and users from around the world to share experiences and development plans for open source geospatial software. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20060416 <p> Refractions Research has joined the Google &#147;Summer of Code&#148; initiative as a mentoring organization. The &#147;Summer of Code&#148; is a program that offers student developers stipends to create new open source programs or to help currently established projects. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20051003 <p>Refractions Research has announced the completion of a colaborative project to improve index concurrency and recovery for the <a href='http://www.postgresql.org'>PostgreSQL</a> <a href='http://gist.cs.berkeley.edu/'>GiST</a> indexing system used by <a href='http://postgis.refractions.net'>PostGIS</a> and other PostgreSQL extensions. </p> <p>The project brought together funding from multiple companies around the world to support the <a href='http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/'>GiST development team</a> in adding row level locking and recovery to the PostgreSQL GiST subsytem. Refractions assembled the various funding companies, provided quality assurance of the final product and centralized invoicing for the project. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20050930 <p><a href="http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/UDIG+1.0.4">uDig 1.0.4</a> is available for download:</p> <ul> <li>Windows Installer: <a href="http://udig.refractions.net/downloads/udig1.0.4.exe">udig1.0.4.exe</a></li> <li>Linux: <a href="http://udig.refractions.net/downloads/udig-1.0.4.linux.gtk.x86.zip">udig-1.0.4-linux.gtk.x86.zip</a></li> <li>Mac OSX: <a href="http://udig.refractions.net/downloads/udig-1.0.4.macosx.carbon.ppc.zip">udig-1.0.4.macosx.carbon.ppc.zip</a></li> </ul> <p>A special thanks to the uDig community for helping with translations, bug reports and code donations!</p> <p>Notable improvements are:</p> <ul> <li>DB2 support</li> <li>Shapefile rendering 10 times faster</li> <li>Update Manager added allowing patches and optional features to be installed from within uDig</li> <li>Spanish Translation</li> <li>Preview Mac OSX support</li> <li>Several useability improvements</li> <li>Reduced dependency on internet</li> <li>Multiple bug fixes</li> </ul> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20050704 <p><a href=http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/UDIG+1.0.0>uDig 1.0.0</a> is available for download: <ul><li> Windows Installer<a href=http://udig.refractions.net/downloads/udig1.0.0.exe>: udig1.0.0.exe</a> <li> Linux: <A href=http://udig.refractions.net/downloads/udig-1.0.0-linux.zip>udig1.0.0-linux-x86.zip</a></ul> <p> For additional information please see the uDig 1.0.0 download page. This release is made in conjunction with <a href=http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOTOOLS/2.1.RC1>Geotools 2.1.RC1</a>. </p> <p> Congratulations <a href=http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Team>everyone</a>! Special thanks to the Java GIS community and GeoConnections Canada for another successful project. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20050603 http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20050420 <p> <A HREF=http://postgis.refractions.net><img border=0 src=http://www.postgis.org/img-bin/elephant.jpg align=left hspace=5 vspace=5></A>Refractions Research today announced the release of <A HREF=http://postgis.refractions.net>PostGIS 1.0.0</A>, the latest open source GIS extensions for the <A HREF=http://www.postgresql.org>PostgreSQL</A> database system. </p> <p> The 1.0.0 release includes substantial new functionality and performance improvements over previous releases, with a smaller on-disk storage format, new functions for analysis and data manipulation, and much tighter integration with the PostgreSQL core database system. </p> http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20050419 http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20050331 http://wwww.postgis.org/company/news/./20041130