European Citizen Science Association conference Berlin 19-21 may 2016
I had the opportunity to visit the ECSA conference in Berlin. The event attracted a 200-ish citizen scientists and related organisations from around the globe, with contributions from biodiversity monitoring programs, ecological monitoring (air/water quality,... read more
FOSS4G Argentina (Buenos Aires)
This year I had the privilege to go to the FOSS4G Argentina, which took place on the IGN of Buenos Aires. What can I tell you of Argentina that you don’t already know. That's quite a thing #asado A photo posted by Jorge Sanz (@xurxosanz) on Apr 5, 2016 at... read moreGeoNetwork from Scratch IIb : Attack of the IDEs
In the previous post of this series my colleague Maria show you how to setup GeoNetwork 3 in Eclipse IDE. If you’re a user of IntelliJ IDE, start working with GeoNetwork is really easy. You only need to checkout GeoNetwork from GitHub: $ git... read moreSetting up GeoNetwork with dutch PDOK tile services
PDOK is a main provider of spatial data services in the Netherlands. Setting up GeoNetwork to use PDOK WMTS services as default background layers in the maps is not as trivial as one would expect. In this post I present a code snippet that will introduce the PDOK... read more
JIIDE 2015 – Sevilla
Last week I attended the JIIDE conference, that took place here in Sevilla. This is the official conference for both portuguese and spanish spatial data infraestructures. The presentations were diverse and rich in content and there were working groups for INSPIRE and... read moreFOSS4G Developer Award
Thomas Bonfort Receives FOSS4G Developer Award Thomas Bonfort was honored with the inaugural FOSS4G Developer Award, sponsored by GeoCat, during the FOSS4G 2015 conference in Seoul, South Korea. Attendees of the FOSS4G-Seoul event placed votes for the best developer,... read moreFOSS4G 2015 – Seoul
Last week we had the OSGeo FOSS4G conference, where GeoCat did not only sponsor, but was a very active actor.
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Bike thefts and police stations… part 2
I was triggered by a question at this blog http://menwhostareatmaps.com/?p=48: “How can I locate all police stations in the netherlands?” My first thought was why not check INSPIRE, they should have it and you’d have them for the whole of... read moreGeoNetwork from Scratch II : Attack of the IDEs
We have already seen how to compile and run a basic GeoNetwork instance. Although we know that real developers will probably skip this step too, for new developers in GeoNetwork, it will be relief to have an IDE to work with. I know that many GeoNetwork developers use... read moreGeoNetwork From Scratch I : The Phantom Catalog
GeoNetwork never has been an easy software to work with. But specially after the 3.0 version release, many things have changed. On this series of posts we will try to help new developers start with GeoNetwork.
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GeoCat at the INSPIRE & Geospatial World Forum Lisbon
In 2014 it was suggested INSPIRE Conference and Geospatial World Forum should join to facilitate one of the biggest geospatial events in Europe. End of may 2015 the actual event took place in Lisbon, Portugal. Some 1500 participants listened to over 300 speakers... read more
GeoNetwork 3 released
What’s new in the recent release of GeoNetwork 3.0
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