Case Studies

Land registry organizations have many problems. They lack investment on technology, data sources are highly dispersed, and information is not updated as often as required.

This data can only be published if some problems are solved, including the centralization of geospatial information within a database, the safe publication of this information and high costs.

The company was called PxQ and was devoted to the conduction of market researches on real estate. They used to gather information from different sources, including the construction sector and the government.

Precision Agriculture requires data collection to show spatial variability. The problem was that large volumes of information were generated and there were difficulties trying to organize and consult them.

This project was aimed at controlling plague (agricultural plague) throughout the country by detecting factors which produce illnesses. It also included alarms created by experts for the different areas.

An open source GIS application was proposed, because this was a development carried out for a governmental organization.

The starting point for this application was based on the fact that retail through traditional channels (not through supermarkets or malls) has a large geographical dispersion which restricts the analysis of brand penetration, customers’ retention and other variables for this huge number of points of sale.