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Bolsena Codesprint 2019

by Michel Gabriel | Mar 20, 2019 | 0 Comments

Date: June 24th / June 28th After twelve successful years, we’ll continue the OSGeo “hacking” event in Bolsena in an Italian monastery (see map location, and videos: 2008-video, 2009-video and 2010-video. The monastery is overlooking Lago Bolsena and offers space to...

Some thoughts around INSPIRE conference 2018 Antwerp

by Paul van Genuchten | Oct 8, 2018 | 0 Comments

How Open Data Principles challenges INSPIRE? Data stream is the new gold. What is the future of a data catalog when search engines implement dataset search?

Bridge 3 Release

by Jeroen Ticheler | Apr 17, 2018 | 0 Comments

GeoCat proudly presents a new release of GeoCat Bridge; version 3.0. GeoCat Bridge is an extension for ArcGIS Desktop to publish the layers from an ArcMap map project (MXD) to GeoServer or MapServer as OGC Web Services (WMS/WFS/WCS) and publish the metadata of layers...

GeoCat Bridge Explained

by Jeroen Ticheler | Apr 17, 2018 | 0 Comments

GeoCat Bridge is an extension for ArcGIS Desktop and runs within ArcMap. This blogpost aims to explain what GeoCat Bridge does in more detail. In short; GeoCat Bridge enables you to publish the layers from a ArcMap map project (MXD) to GeoServer or MapServer as OGC...

2017@Geocat

by Antonio Cerciello | Jan 8, 2018 | 0 Comments

2017 was a great year for GeoCat. For another year we did what we love to do and we challenged ourselves to do it better and better. We celebrated our 10th anniversary! In the beginning of the year we grew up our team, welcoming two new members. We would like to...

105th OGC TC/PC meeting in New Zealand

by Jorge Samuel Mendes de Jesus | Jan 3, 2018 | 0 Comments

Aotearoa (aka New Zealand) and the city of Palmerston North welcomed the OGC December meeting (from the 4th until the 8th). OGC meetings are used for standard discussion and presentation from multiple working groups for example, the Coverages & DataCube DWG...

JIIDE and SASIG, in Portugal

by Jeroen Ticheler | Dec 14, 2017 | 0 Comments

During the month of November, two important events in the scope of SDI and FOSS4G took place in Portugal: JIIDE, in Lisbon, and SASIG, in Porto. The JIIDE - "VIII Jornadas Ibéricas de Infraestruturas de Dados Espaciais" is a yearly event focused on topics related to...

GeoNetwork as a facilitator of the new EU privacy regulation (GDPR)

by Paul van Genuchten | Dec 2, 2017 | 0 Comments

The deadline for adopting the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is approaching soon. In this article I’ll dive in the topic if the open source project GeoNetwork can facilitate the implementation of GDPR at organisations. GDPR is the new EU data...

INSPIRE conference 2017 Strassbourg

by Paul van Genuchten | Sep 25, 2017 | 0 Comments

In 2017 GeoCat participated in the INSPIRE conference in Strassbourg as a sponsor and presented various sessions and a workshop. In this blog a summary of some of the sessions visited. Folding this around some of the interesting tweets in that week seems the new way...

Mixed content and cross domain errors in browser-SDI

by Paul van Genuchten | Jun 18, 2017 | 0 Comments

Browser based Spatial Data Infrastructure typically combines data from a variety of domains on a single web application (for example GeoNetwork). There are two typical errors that block optimal user experience in browser-SDI, which need some special attention. In both...

GeoNetwork and the search engines

by Paul van Genuchten | Jun 14, 2017 | 0 Comments

Currently GeoNetwork records are hardly harvested by search engines. There are some problems that can be addressed quite easily to improve this. This post presents some findings from the implementation of https://nationaalgeoregister.nl, as presented at Bolsena 2017....