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Año tras año, la GeoCamp se consolida como el geosarao imprescindible para hacer brainstorming sobre las últimas novedades en geocosas. Publicado originalmente en el blog de GeoInquietos Sevilla. La foto de grup del Geocamp ES 2016 a Barcelona #geocampes pic.twitter.com/H44a413tM0 — Geo Inquiets (@geoinquiets) 22 de octubre de 2016 Todo el mundo tiene sus cinco minutos de fama, incluso si no llevas nada preparado, raro será que no participes en alguna discusión. Battery just about to die so this concludes my #geocampes tweeting. Here’s the remaining lineup pic.twitter.com/3eRxBt5NsF — Ed Freyfogle (@freyfogle) 22 de octubre de 2016

This post was originally posted on the blog of a former company. But since they have decided to violate my authorship rights, here is a copy of it. Last week I attended the JIIDE conference, that took place here in Sevilla. This is the official conference for both portuguese and spanish spatial data infraestructures. The presentations were diverse and rich in content and there were working groups for INSPIRE and conformance running in parallel. Trends on GeoSpatial You could see some trends in how SDIs are evolving through all the Iberian Peninsula. Geograma explained to us that hiding data behind paywalls or registering sites makes us less compliant. But on the other hand, maybe it doesn’t matter because as José Fernández ( IECA) showed us, data is going more and more open and free. Why should someone pay for data generated on a public administration? It has already been payed by taxes and a paywall is just another stone on the way of generating added value to the data. And above all this, every country has a different payment and access system, so it is virtually impossible to query the same data on different countries easily, which was one of the goals for INSPIRE.

This post was originally posted on the blog of a former company. But since they have decided to violate my authorship rights, here is a copy of it. The 9th SIGLibre conference in Girona starts with bad news: no wifi. But that didn’t stop us to talk about geo free stuff. SIGLibre Topics Almost all the plenary talks touched topics like smart citizens, open data, crowd data, crowd sourcing,… It is quite clear this is an emerging subject that we are going to use more and more. But, is this really a business market or is this just something to research and contribute to the community? ...

Estas últimas Jornadas SIGLibre de Girona han girado en torno a servicios cloud y datos abiertos. Desde el apoteósico inicio con las ponencias plenarias, con parte destacada de Sergi Morales ( ExportosenTI), el resto de las charlas han ido rodando todas en el mismo tema. Algunas quizás un poco más críticas, como F. Puga desde CartoLab cuando nos pidió que no olvidáramos que no todo el mundo tiene acceso global a internet, y que muchos millones de personas, las cuales no tienen nuestro nivel tecnológico, también tienen necesidades GIS. ...

GeoNetwork is a server side application that allows you to maintain a geographic referenced metadata catalogue. This means: a search portal that allows to view metadata combined with maps. GeoNetwork logo Based on Free and Open Source Software, it strictly follows different standards for metadata, from Inspire to OGC. It implements the CSW interface to be able to interact with generic clients looking for data. It also has built-in harvesters to connect to other servers and populate data. ...

These are the notes I took on the GeoServer workshop at the last gvSIG Conference. Data Directory It is important to change the settings of the geoserver_data_dir in the web.xml file to keep the data each time you restart the application container (like Tomcat). It is also good to check out the other settings as it contains interesting facts such as the type of projections to be used or the size of the cache. There are configurable data on the fly and data not configurable on the fly. ...

This are the notes that I took over gvSIG 2.0 on the latests Jornadas GvSIG. Pre-requisites Java Eclipse Ant (should) Maven (should) gvSIG (this is recursive :)) The main advantage of gvSIG 2.0 is that you can create a new plugin without knowing how does gvSIG work or having to compile it. We already have a gvSIG installation that deploys the binaries to the workspace. But we don’t have to change the source code. Unless, of course, something doesn’t work (bugs) or we have to add some new functionality to the core. Better if you don’t touch it, ask the developers and they will take care. ...

I am proud to share with you the steps to compile gvSIG 2.0, which I discovered thanks to some fellows developers, whom I met thanks to the latests Jornadas GvSIG. Although you can find a full guide on the official documentation, this simple steps will let you customize and compile your own gvSIG2.0 version without much trouble. First, you have to install some basic dependencies: #apt-get install maven2 subversion Next, we create a folder in which we can work: ...

I’ve been thinking for a while about writing about the importance of open data, but is with the advertising given to Google Map Maker when I really understood the urgency of the matter. Can you imagine a country with so poor geographic data that even the government doesn’t known which cities and towns do they have? How could they invest on roads, literacy, drinking water or even know that there are people who live there? How could they collect taxes or… count votes in elections!? Can you imagine that a battalion of soldiers use maps that are wrong and establish a base in the nearest country? An absurdity that happened recently on the border between [Nicaragua and Costa Rica](https://www. elmundo.es/america/2011/04/19/noticias/1303174548.html), which almost causes an international conflict. ...

Sometimes you don’t know where to start when you enter the world of GIS programming. Too many libraries, IDEs, but the truth is, everyone assumes you already have a base and everything become chaos. Something is easy as how to develop a map on Java has scarce documentation. If you have absolutely no idea of GIS, I would recommend you start by the Free book of Free GIS by Victor Olaya. ...