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We are the Geospatial Experts We build data systems that add geographic-intelligence to business processes. Oracle, ESRI, Java, FME and more. We combine proprietary and open source components into innovative and cost-effective solutions to our clients' problems. Home Our Products -- Our Products Our Services Company Contact Home News SMART 6.3 and SMART Mobile Released June 6, 2020 Refractions is happy to announce the release of SMART 6.3 and SMART Mobile. Download the new version from the SMART Partnership website here Refractions is proud to be an associate of the SMART Partnership and excited to continue contributing to their software development as we've done so for over 10 years now! Read more... PostGIS 3.0.1 Released Feb 20, 2020 The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.1. PostGIS 3.0.1 Download Full details here Read more... More News... We are the Geospatial Experts We have been building software systems that add geographic intelligence to enterprise business processes since 1998 . We have expertise in Java, PostGIS, FME, ESRI, Oracle Spatial and more. We can build custom software systems integrating proprietary and open source components into innovative and cost-effective solutions to our clients' problems. Geospatial Technology We keep on top of the latest changes in enterprise spatial and web mapping technologies. Technologies from Google (Maps, Earth and KML), ESRI (ArcGIS), and Oracle (IAS, Spatial, Designer, Database) are key components in the solutions we build . We are not a vendor, and we recommend solutions that make the best use of your existing physical intellectual capital. A Refractions solution is technically sound, economically feasible, and long-term maintainable. Open Source Experts Refractions Research is a world leader in open source geospatial technology. We develop the PostGIS spatial database and the uDig GIS desktop framework, and are active participants in many other open source projects. By using open source components, we can build geospatial systems that are flexible and inexpensive to deploy. Our clients like open source because it keeps costs down. We like open source because it gives us the freedom to innovate and build the best possible solutions. Agile Process Great software is a journey , from idea to formulation to reality. Tell us your idea! You need a new system that solves particular problems. How will it work? We formulate a plan for free! An initial solution architecture, a budget and a schedule. We move the plan to reality, using an agile development methodology , keeping the client intimitately involved throughout the process. Get in touch now and let us build you a plan! -- Case Studies SMART Conservation Software 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. Read more... 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. Read more... 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. Read more... More Case Studies... Internal...