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...
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...
ESA ERGO project
GeoCat has implemented the ebRIM registry interface with the basic and ISO extension packages for the European Space Agency project ERGO. The project fits within the broader Heterogeneous Mission Accessibility Test bed (HMA-T) that works towards harmonized access to...
Nordic Open Source Initiative Network
GeoCat is contracted by a consortium of the cadastre agencies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Scotland to develop the core of their respective National geo-registries. GeoCat works on ensuring the compliance of the software with the INSPIRE directive for...
