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...
FOSS4G 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,...
FOSS4G 2015 – Seoul
Last week we had the OSGeo FOSS4G conference, where GeoCat did not only sponsor, but was a very active actor.
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...
GeoNetwork from Scratch II : Attack of the IDEs
We have already seen how to compile and run a basic GeoNetwork instance. Although we know that real developers will probably skip this step too, for new developers in GeoNetwork, it will be relief to have an IDE to work with. I know that many GeoNetwork developers use...
GeoNetwork From Scratch I : The Phantom Catalog
GeoNetwork never has been an easy software to work with. But specially after the 3.0 version release, many things have changed. On this series of posts we will try to help new developers start with GeoNetwork.
GeoCat at the INSPIRE & Geospatial World Forum Lisbon
In 2014 it was suggested INSPIRE Conference and Geospatial World Forum should join to facilitate one of the biggest geospatial events in Europe. End of may 2015 the actual event took place in Lisbon, Portugal. Some 1500 participants listened to over 300 speakers...
Newsletter May 29
Version 2.0 GeoCat BV is proud to announce the release of Version 2.0 of our successful GeoCat Bridge software, "One Click Data Publishing for ArcGIS Desktop." Bridge is a tool that allows you to quickly publish your spatial data interactive map project on the...
GeoNetwork 3 released
What’s new in the recent release of GeoNetwork 3.0
SigLibre 9, Girona
The 9th SIGLibre conference in Girona starts with bad news: no wifi. But that didn't stop us to talk about geo free stuff. Almost all the plenary talks touched topis like smart citizens, open data, crowd data, crowd sourcing,... It is quite clear this is an emerging...
Query GeoNetwork with SPARQL
Report of a session examining GeoNetwork as a facilitator for the semantic web
Update on conformance testing
These days I happened to work on three projects that shared a similar aspect, testing a number of interfaces on the level of conformance with some specifications. In this post I present some of my findings while doing this exercise. The first project was the...
