User Testimonials

Here's what users have to say about software from the Lab:

Brent Pedersen, UC Berkeley Plant Biology.

 We use Rtree for fast querying of comparative genomic data (often visualized as a  dotplot) derived from BLAST or other sequence similarity.

And use shapely for other GEOS-related comparisons for determining spatial relations among genomic features in 1D and 2D space.

Cédric Moullet, Camptocamp

 The MapFish web mapping development framework benefits a lot of Shapely and GeoJSON.

Dominic Lowe, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

At the  Centre for Environmental Data Archival we have found OWSLib and Shapely to be very useful, well thought out tools that greatly simplify aspects of geospatial software development.

James Crone, EDINA

At  EDINA I use Shapely for all kinds of stuff involving our geospatial datasets.

Tom Kralidis, GeoConnections

We have used the OWSLib framework to help in developing and testing CSW servers, which has been very useful for interacting with OGC Catalogues.

Sean Gillies,  Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

At ISAW we use Shapely to process shapes uploaded to our research CMS, Rtree in a bespoke spatial index for this CMS, and Geojson to serialize data for use in our web applications.

Pascal Leroux,  Institut Geographique National

At IGN, I use Shapely and Rtree to (re)build topology with shapefiles as input data and to determine available satellite images from large catalogs for particular zones.

Jacob Westfall, NetAlerts

We use Shapely, Rtree and Geojson extensively in our public alerting system. These projects all play a key role in working with alert information geospatially to allow emergency alerts such as severe weather, fires, amber alerts, and others to be delivered to the locations that are affected.