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 GeoCat, the Government Geographic Data Publishing Company, has been involved in a number of significant projects delivering Spatial Data Infrastructure solutions based on GeoNetwork opensource software. Besides providing short consultancy services to agencies like The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Rijkswaterstaat, The Dutch Kadaster and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), the following relevant projects have been or are under implementation by GeoCat.
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 GeoCat has contributed to the development of the GEO Portal. Complexity of map symbology is no longer an issue. The portal has been developed as a contribution to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and was presented at the GEO Ministerial Conference in Cape Town (SA) in November 2007. The GEO Portal runs on GeoNetwork open source. GeoCat B.V. was in charge of the development of the web map client component integration and extension. The developers also provided support to ESA’s main contractor on the GeoNetwork integration and extension. The GEO Portal can be found at http://www.geoportal.org
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 GeoCat has contributed to the development of the SwissTopo geographic catalogue. geocat.ch is the metadata catalogue of Switzerland's geodata. Federal, cantonal and municipal offices as well as private firms use geocat.ch to publish metadata for their own geodata. GeoCat worked in a consortium with CamptoCamp (Swiss) and BRGM (France) on the implementation. GeoCat focussed on the support of complex metadata editing, including functionality to prevent public access to sensitive metadata fragments within the metadata, a custom Swiss catalogue interface and general technical support to the project.
The geocat.ch portal can be found at http://www.geocat.ch |
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 GeoCat has implemented the ebRIM registry interface with the basic and ISO extension packages for the European Space Agency project ERGO. The project fits within the broader Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility Test bed (HMA-T) that works towards harmonized access to all earth observation data collected by the ESA member states at the distributed ground segments. The registry is implemented as a component of the GeoNetwork open source project and transparently publishes metadata published in GeoNetwork through the registry. The ebRIM software source code can be found here
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 GeoCat is contracted by a consortium of the cadastre agencies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Scotland to develop the core of their respective National geo-registries. GeoCat works on ensuring the compliance of the software with the INSPIRE directive for metadata. The security layer and web mapping interface are further developed as part of this project which is running since the start of 2010.
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 GeoCat is actively maintaining and further developing the Dutch National Georegistry for Geonovum. The georegistry delivers access to interoperable geospatial services provided by the national stakeholders in The Netherlands. The portal is the critical component in the Dutch Spatial Data Infrastructure, targeting the wider community of users that depend on spatial data services in among others disaster scenarios. The registry is the formal INSPIRE entry point for The Netherlands in Europe.
Geonovum can be found at http://www.geonovum.nl
The National Georegistry can be found at http://www.nationaalgeoregister.nl |
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