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...
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: Del 24 al 28 de Junio de 2019 Tras doce fructíferos años volveremos a encontrarnos en un nuevo evento de "hacking" de OSGeo en un convento italiano situado en Bolsena (comprueba la localización en el mapa y los videos: 2008-video, 2009-video and 2010-video). El...
Ambicioso contrato de framework con Eurostat
GeoCat se enorgullece en anunciar que le ha sido adjudicado un contrato marco, en una empresa conjunta, por la oficina de estadísticas de la Comisión Europea (Eurostat) en relación con el desarrollo y mantenimiento del software de Infraestructura de Datos Espaciales...
Auto ordenación de capas de puntos sobre capas de líneas y polígonos en GeoExplorer
De vez en cuando recibimos esta pregunta de GeoExplorer ( GXP ): Forzar al visor web a dibujar puntos sobre líneas y sobre polígonos, independientemente de la estructura del menú de capas Se me ocurrió, que uno no debería ocultar la capa de puntos al superponerla con...
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...