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...
INSPIRE conference 2017 Strassbourg
In 2017 GeoCat participated in the INSPIRE conference in Strassbourg as a sponsor and presented various sessions and a workshop. In this blog a summary of some of the sessions visited. Folding this around some of the interesting tweets in that week seems the new way...
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...
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....
GeoCat Diamond OSGeo Sponsorship
GeoCat continues its commitment to open source with a Diamond Sponsorship of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation for 2017.
Announcing 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.
Extending 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...
Nationaal GeoRegister (The Netherlands)
GeoCat was contracted to implement a metadata catalogue based on GeoNetwork opensource for the National Geo Registry of The Netherlands.
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...
GeoNetwork 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...
Setting 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...
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...
