Open European gazetteer and associated location data survey
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) in collaboration with Eurogeographics is undertaking a ‘Open European gazetteer and associated location data survey’ as part of the five-year European Location Interoperability Solutions for e-Government (ELISE) action, which is supported by the ISA2 programme. The results will be used to implement relevant ‘gazetteer’ solutions, starting with […]
News from EUROGI Members – AFIGEO: Workshop on Open Data Access and Harmonisation by a Virtual Hub
4th September 2017 In the frame of the INSPIRE Conference 2017, The ENERGIC OD Project Team (AFIGEO and fourteen other partners) organized their final conference in Kehl (Germany), on the 4th of September 2017. This Workshop on “Open Data Access and Harmonisation by a Virtual Hub” allowed, for a fifty participants, to discover these HV: […]
News from EUROGI Members – AFIGEO: Francophone Conference on Geographic Information
4th & 5th September 2017 Organized by AFIGEO and CNIG, in partnership with the Greater East Region, the ” Francophone Conference on Geographic Information” took place in Strasbourg (House of the Region) the 4th and 5th of September. Entitled “Which governances for the geographical information?”, this conference gathered on 2 days more than 250 actors […]
News from EUROGI Members – IRLOGI: Invitation to Webinar “State of OpenStreetMap Ireland”
The webinar will take place on Wednesday 11th October at 14.00 CEST and will be presented by Ciaran Staunton, who will be speaking in his private capacity but is an Administrative Officer in Fingal County Council. Ciarán will provide background information about OpenStreetMap, the state of play for Ireland and will mention an initiative to […]
News from EUROGI Members – EARSC: Results EO Industry Survey, September 2017
The survey was conducted during the 1st quarter of 2017; figures are for the Financial Year (FY) 2016. EARSC first conducted this survey in 2013 (FY2012) with a second one in 2015 (FY2014). The series of data is allowing a good indication of trends to be developed. A survey was also conducted by others in […]
News from EUROGI Members – AMFM-GIS Belux: Invitation to Seminar “GEOBUSINESS : WHO PAYS / WILL PAY FOR WHAT?”
Whether public or private, geographical data are nowadays increasingly freely available and at no cost to the user. On July 12th 2017, the Walloon Government adopted a decree on the reuse of public sector information aimed at establishing an open data policy. Take for instance the COPERNICUS Sentinel satellite data that are freely accessible to […]
News from EUROGI Memebrs – EARSC: Participated to the TAIEX Multi-Country Workshops on Space Applications
EARSC Secretariat together with GISAT, TerraNIS and TERRASIGNA participated to the TAIEX Multi-Country Workshops on Space Applications (Copernicus, Galileo) in Chile & Bolivia For more information, please follow the link: http://www.copernicus.eu/news/taiex-multi-country-workshops-space-applications
News from EUROGI Members – HEXAGON: Stand at Smart City Expo World Congress 2017
Driven by disruptive innovation, Hexagon’s information technology portfolio empowers customers with integrated data feeds and seamless workflows to create smart ecosystems – they call these Smart X. From smart cities, smart power plants, and smart factories, to smart mines and smart farms, Hexagon leverages data to digitally transform the way these systems operate. Between 14 […]
News from EUROGI Members – LATGIS: Invitation to Latvian Geospatial Information Technology Conference
Latvian GIS Association organizes Latvian Geospatial Information Technology Conference on December 8, 2017 at the Academic Center for Natural Sciences of the University of Latvia. The aim of the conference is to create a common understanding of the geospatial information technology sector in Latvia, its challenges and development trends. This kind of conference in Latvia […]
News from EUROGI Members – DDGI: Copernicus at Intergeo 2017
Together with the European Commission, the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), DDGI would like to present selected use cases of Copernicus data and information. On Wednesday (September 27th, 2017), a number of key experts will give brief talks on the use of Copernicus (in German): The DDGI […]