OGC API sprint – February 2021
GeoCat had an opportunity to sponsor an event that perfectly captures what we love to do as a company. In February 2021 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) combined forces with two open source foundations, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and Open Source...
2020 spring release of the GeoCat Enterprise products
We’re delighted to share the next Feature release of GeoNetwork and GeoServer Enterprise, named 2020.5. The release was scheduled to arrive in spring 2020. Unfortunately the release has been delayed by various factors, amongst others the Covid crisis. In this...
Bolsena Code Sprint 2020 WFH Edition
GeoCat was pleased to organize and participate in one of the first OSGeo Code Sprints of 2020. With the key community sprint deployed, we made the hard choice to move the Bolsena Code Sprint 2020 to an online “work-from-home” format.Open-source from around the world...
Selection of online events
Worldwide geo events are cancelled because of the covid-19 outbreak. Paul van Genuchten of GeoCat selected interesting virtual meetings in our domain. Geo Show Just van den Broecke (osgeo.nl) and his team make a weekly ‘Geo Show’ (De Grote Geo Show, DGGS) Livestream...
GeoCat Bridge: Publishing for Search and Discovery
GeoCat Bridge extends QGIS to not only make publishing web maps easy, but also publishing for search and discovery. GeoCat Bridge publishes metadata to GeoNetwork so people can find your web maps and, more importantly, understand them. In this video, David shows GeoCat Bridge doing full publication.
Why and how to work with GeoServer
What is GeoServer for and how to use it? Jody Garnett of GeoCat takes you through the GeoServer basics in this presentation, recorded at FOSDEM 2020 in February in Brussels. A look at what makes GeoServer a succes and the technology stack that makes it possible....
GeoCat Bridge adds QGIS desktop support
GeoCat releases GeoCat Bridge 4.0 for QGIS Desktop! This plugin enables you to easily publish your maps (data and styling) online, as well as catalog them for discovery with GeoNetwork. The GeoCat Bridge QGIS plugin supports publication to GeoServer, PostGIS,...
Development update Bridge for QGIS
At GeoCat we are wrapping up our release candidate of the new GeoCat Bridge plug-in for QGIS this week. We are grateful to all who installed the experimental plugin and provided feedback.
Release candidate of GeoCat Bridge for QGIS
In the first quarter of 2020 we expect to present our new GeoCat Bridge for QGIS. This will be one of the most effective data publishing solutions for QGIS. The experimental plug-in is already available for download. One-click publication workflow GeoCat Bridge for...
GeoCat present at Inspire 2020 in Dubrovnik
GeoCat will be organizing two sessions and a workshop at the INSPIRE 2020 conference in Dubrovnik in May. Our colleague Paul van Genuchten is co-organising this two sessions. In 90 minutes 6 speakers will highlight various aspects of innovative technologies in data...
GeoNetwork community sprints
As an open source company one of our pleasures is to participate in GeoNetwork development, releases and community sprints. Two sprints that have been organized for the end of 2019 had GeoCat staff participating. They do so on behalf of our customers and our catalog...
GeoNetwork plug-in for GDPR data is widely applicable
GeoCat has developed a plug-in for GeoNetwork to extend data catalogs with a GDPR data registry. RIVM initiated the development of this open source tool. The plug-in is an example of how organisations can benefit from the knowledge and experience of the geo-community...
