Tag Archives: OGC

pygeometa: New Geospatial Metadata Package

pygeometa is a new open source Python package to generate metadata for geospatial datasets. Users can manage simple configurations to generate geospatial metadata in a variety of formats. Features: simple configuration: inspired by Python’s ConfigParser extensible: template architecture allows for easy addition of new metadata formats flexible: use as a command-line tool or integrate as a library pygeometa is available ...

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Cartoview Enterprise GeoSpatial Application Platform Released

Cartoview is an open source web framework for managing and deploying  geospatial and business Applications, the architecture of Cartoview makes it easy to efficiently develop and maintain and deploy GIS enterprise applications. The Cartoview App market offers a variety of apps that are simply deployed directly from the browser, the apps allow you to easily handle your spatial data under ESRI ...

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Batch Geonews: OL3-Cesium Library, Embed Street Views, OGC Web Coverage Tile Service, and much more

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: The new OL3-Cesium library, integrating OpenLayers 3 and Cesium together for smooth switching between 2D and 3D A new book on the open source GDAL/OGR library, “Geospatial Power Tools” by Tyler Mitchell Not directly geospatial but for 3D, Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For ...

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OGC honored Jacobs University Professor Peter Baumann with Kenneth D. Gardels Award

Peter Baumann, Professor of Computer Science at Jacobs University, has been honored with the Kenneth D. Gardels Award by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). The OGC Board of Directors awarded the prize to Peter Baumann in recognition of his “significant contribution to the OGC’s essential role and mission in the global Information Technology community”. Jeffrey K. Harris, Chairman of the ...

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Defi GeoHack

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In Quebec City (Canada), a unique Geo Challenge-Hackathon event will be held just before one of the major GIS events in North America. This event, called Défi GéoHack (French or English language: is based on traditional hackathons for developers, integrators, cartographers, students, etc. with a mix of challenges submitted by sponsors focusing on GIS ...

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pycsw 1.10.0 released

The pycsw team announces the release of pycsw 1.10.0.The 1.10.0 release brings significant features, enhancements and fixes to the codebase, including: support OGC OpenSearch Geo and Time Extensions standard support for Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) support spatial dateline queries better support for geospatial links via the Python geolinks library fix CSW harvesting to harvest full records ...

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Batch Geonews: OpenStreetMap Contributions, QGIS Cloud, Google ‘The Cartographer’, O’Reilly Book, and much more

Here’s the latest geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: Ready for FOSS4G, the geospatial open source software collection named OSGeo-Live 8.0 has been released Pictures tell you everything, OpenStreetMap contributions around the world Informative charts, The OpenStreetMap Contributor Activity Report – Edition We mentioned QGIS Cloud two years ago, here’s an entry ...

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Batch Geonews: Google Drone Delivery, Galileo Satellites Failures, 100 New 3D Cities for Bing Maps, 1M NYC Buildings in OSM, and much more

Here’s the recent geonews in batch mode. On the open source / open data front: A webinar Friday next week named Introducing the QGIS Academy Project Nice to see, Over 1 million New York City buildings and addresses imported to OpenStreetMap Because that’s the kind of maps we want to show our friends, Showing geotagged photos on a Leaflet map ...

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Batch Geonews: WorldView-3 Launched, UK to Allow Autonomous Cars, ArcGIS Pro, MapBox GL, and much more

This is an unusually long edition of the geonews in batch mode, covering all of our Summer break. On the Esri front: A nice summary, Twelve Things Worth Knowing from Esri User Conference Q&A More options is good, Introducing Esri’s World Elevation Services It’s not ‘beta’ anymore, ArcGIS Open Data production APB discuss the upcoming 64-bits friendly ArcGIS Pro ...

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Batch Geonews: Amazon Fire 3D Phone, Esri’s GeoPlanner, New MOOCs, 60-80% of all data is geo, 40cm Imagery, and much more

Completing the catching up of all the geonews for June. From the Esri front: Esri is Introducing GeoPlanner for ArcGIS “a new premium web app focused on meeting the needs of planning and design professionals across a wide range of industries” GeoAwesomeness discusses ESRI’s new GIS MOOC: Going Places with Spatial Analysis There’s New Landscape layers on ArcGIS Online and ...

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