Bolsena Code Sprint both productive and pleasant
For the thirteenth year, our founder and CEO Jeroen Ticheler has organised the Bolsena Code Sprint. From 23 to 29 June, about twenty GeoNetwork experts will work on upgrades, better code and migration issues. Happily it is not only work that matters. The event takes...
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Major GeoNetwork Enterprise Update (201905.1)
On the 7th of May, GeoCat released a new, major update of GeoNetwork Enterprise. It is focused on accessibility and has a more neutral look. It is optimised for generic use and has an improved editor usability. With version number 201905.1 we also introduce a new...
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Developments in GeoPackage and WFS 3.0
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently running Testbed-15. As a member of the OGC, GeoCat closely follows the developments in GeoPackage and WFS 3.0. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) develops high quality open standards and constantly picks up...
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GeoCat hosting Dutch GeoNetwork user group meeting
GeoCat is hosting the second meeting of the Dutch GeoNetwork user group this year. Among the subjects to discuss on May 23th are the impact of new OGC APIs on the geo landscape. Special Guests will be ISRIC (World Soil Information) and Nieuwland Geo Information, both...
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Training to set up a Spatial Data Infrastructure
Could you support us in our process of developing a modern Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)? The Lands Department in Hong Kong approached GeoCat with this question. As we are having a wide experience in this field, we set up a two-week tailored training, covering all...
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How to improve the discoverability of GeoNetwork records by search engines
At the last INSPIRE conference one of the hot topics was the discoverability of INSPIRE datasets in search engines. Google had just released its dataset search engine. Some datasets were findable via that engine (via the European open data portal), but certainly not...
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GeoCat Platinum sponsor of FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest
GeoCat B.V. is the first Platinum sponsor of FOSS4G 2019, 26 to 30 August in Bucharest. With our commitment to FOSS4G 2019 we hope to make the conference an even bigger success and also lower the barrier for participation. As a team, GeoCat contributes to OSGeo...
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GeoCat opening keynote at FOSS4G Argentina
Our GeoCat colleague Maria Arias de Reyna held the opening keynote of the FOSS4G Argentina conference early April. She presented an overview of the free and open source software, open data, open hardware and open networks available under the OSGeo umbrella to show...
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Bolsena Codesprint 2019
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...
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Some thoughts around INSPIRE conference 2018 Antwerp
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?
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Bridge 3 Release
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...
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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...
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