Alternative approaches for the new OGC API’s?

Alternative approaches for the new OGC API’s?

GeoCat was present at the OGC API hackathon in London. The event inspired our software developer Paul van Genuchten to step back and look at the latest developments. Do the standards meet the day-to-day needs of GIS professionals? And how can existing providers of...
Developments in GeoPackage and WFS 3.0

Developments in GeoPackage and WFS 3.0

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is currently running Testbed-15. As a member of the OGC, GeoCat closely follows the developments in GeoPackage and WFS 3.0.  The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) develops high quality open standards and constantly picks up...
Some thoughts around INSPIRE conference 2018 Antwerp

Some thoughts around INSPIRE conference 2018 Antwerp

How Open Data Principles challenges INSPIRE, data streams are the new gold and the future of data catalogues when search engines implement dataset search. Mid september the Netherlands and Flanders organised this years edition of the INSPIRE conference in Antwerp...
Bike thefts and police stations… part 2

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...