MADEIRA GPS, a company that started in 2005, with a simple project in mind: Deliver PDA-based navigation, with autorouting, for Madeira Island's tourism.

Institut Géographique National, France

October 15, 2006

The national mapping agency of France manages over 100 million topographic features in PostGIS/PostgreSQL and provides read/write access to over 100 field researchers around the country.

Infoterra, United Kingdom

October 24, 2006

Infoterra, a leading European satellite and aerial imagery provider, runs their data provision and sales systems on PostGIS, and stores the complete Ordnance Survey database on PostGIS.

GlobeXplorer

August 14, 2006

GlobeXplorer serves terrabytes of imagery to clients around the world using PostGIS as their production database server. In 2004, GlobeXplorer migrated from Informix to PostGIS, and now they are serving over a million requests a day with PostGIS.

UC Davis Soil Resource Laboratory

August 18, 2006

The US Davis Soil Resource Laboratory publishes soil inventory data for the southwest United States using PostGIS and Mapserver. Six months ago they were using shape files for spatial data storage. With PostGIS, their data is integrated in the database and new avenues of display and analysis have been opened for them.

EU Joint Research Centre

October 25, 2006

With billion dollar satellites and PostGIS, the EU Joint Research Centre montitors fishing vessels in the North Atlantic and provides real-time reporting and mapping to decision makers and regulators.

Town of Orchard Park, New York

October 6, 2006

The town of Orchard Park, New York manages their GASB accounting inventory in PostgreSQL and provides access to multiple departments and the public via Mapserver on PostGIS.

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