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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
GeoCat Bridge Explained
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
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
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
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)
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...
