Mixed content and cross domain errors in browser-SDI
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...
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GeoNetwork and the search engines
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....
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GeoCat Diamond OSGeo Sponsorship
GeoCat continues its commitment to open source with a Diamond Sponsorship of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation for 2017.
read moreAnnouncing the Extended GeoPackage QGIS Plugin
Migrating a project from ESRI (or another) software to QGIS is a common challenge in the GIS world. With the OWS_Context Geopackage extension and the qgpkg plugin, we hope to address this challenge, at the same time that we promote the adoption of this standard by the overall GIS community.
read moreExtending GeoPackage to include Project/Styling information
This Blog post introduces some of the work GeoCat is working on to satisfy your mapping needs. You probably remember a situation in which you were looking to a mapping project in say ArcGIS, a webpage or phone and bumped into the fact that a specific tool is not...
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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. https://www.instagram.com/p/BD1thIpqcTI Meat paradise. But I didn't go there only for the meat. We...
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...
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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 europe... But why not do an...
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