Draft Implementing Rule for INSPIRE annexes II and III soon ready
What lessons can we learn from the INSPIRE data specification work on annex II and III? The Draft Implementing Rule for INSPIRE annexes II and III themes should be published by beginning of next week...
View ArticleMeet the DHP at the INSPIRE Conference!
The upcoming INSPIRE Conference 2012 in Istanbul is a great opportunity for the data harmonisation panel to get together and to meet others interested in spatial data harmonisation. To contribute to...
View ArticleJoin us at INTERGEO 2012
The Open Source park at INTERGEO has been a prime place to be when wanting to learn about innovative open source projects from the GIS community for many years. This year we have the opportunity to be...
View ArticleFreegis.net project develops PostGIS support for HALE
In June 2011, I was invited to Bolzano, Italy, to present the state of the HUMBOLDT developments to representatives of the FreeGIS project. The FreeGIS project aims to enable private and public...
View ArticleThe inspire-foss project
The open source community around data harmonisation and transformation is growing steadily. An interesting project that was started in 2010 by Just van den Broecke and others is called inspire-foss and...
View ArticlePre-conference workshop at AGILE 2013
Members of the data harmonisation panel and the wider community will host the “Data Complexity Challenge – New Approaches to Data Harmonisation” preconference workshop at AGILE 2013, 14th of May,...
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A Special Preview: The Next-Generation Schema Transformation Service is coming
The cst-wps project wraps the core transformation engine of HALE 2.1 and provides its functionality through a WPS interface. However, the cst-wps wasn’t in active development for some time, so what has...
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Is there a Data Harmonisation Market?
Determining what kind of market exists for the toolset developed in the original HUMBOLDT project (2006 to 2011) was a major part of work. Among other activities, we conducted two market studies (2009...
View ArticleFeature Wish of the Month Polls
It’s important to us to know what you really need in tools to get to grips with data integration and harmonisation. Therefore we’ll be asking you once a month for your feature wishes. We’ll be offering...
View ArticleImplement INSPIRE for Geology Data – Workshop at BGR, Hannover
Around 70 persons participated in a German-language workshop with the goal of exchanging information on the technical implementation of the INSPIRE directive. The workshop, which took place on...
View ArticleFOSS4G Community Selection Candidates include a HALE Workshop!
FOSS4G, the largest GIS Open Source Conference, is doing a community selection process right now on the workshops that will take place at this year’s conference – with a deadline of 6th of June. Help...
View ArticleHALE Workshop @ INSPIRE Conference
Visit beautiful Firenze in Italy and learn about how to interactively transform complex and large Geodata sets at our HALE Workshop! In the workshop, we will demonstrate the steps of a high-quality...
View ArticleINSPIRE 2013: Full Agenda for the HALE Workshop
We (Silvia Franceschi, Simon Templer and me) look forward to welcome you at the HALE workshop at INSPIRE conference. This post brings you the full agenda of the workshop and provides links to...
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INSPIRE 2013: First day presentations – Code Lists, XQuery, GeoUML and other...
While I had a lot of meetings and booth duty, I managed to attend some presentations that turned out to be quite insightful. First, I visited Michael Lutz’ talk entitled “INSPIRE Data Specifications –...
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HALE 2.6.0 brings integration with FME
Last week, we published the new HALE 2.6.0 release. There is one particular feature that we have added in collaboration with Safe Software that I’d like to highlight: The integration of HALE and the...
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Workflow: INSPIRE Planned Land Use for the Trento Province
At the INSPIRE Conference 2013 HALE workshop in Firenze, we presented two case studies, where current published data was used to create INSPIRE-compliant data sets. This post explains how we created...
View ArticleEsri User Conference 2013
On Monday 8th of July, Esri’s International User Conference starts in San Diego. It’s a great event for the whole geospatial industry – hardware vendors, software and system providers, users from all...
View ArticleINSPIRE 2013: Implementation Experience Reports
With the work of the Data Specification teams and initial implementation efforts being completed, there were a lot of experience reports at this year’s INSPIRE conference. This post highlights two of...
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Workflow: Create Code List References in GML 3.2 and GML 3.3
One of the most common questions we got is to explain how to create and use coded values from lists. This article provides a summary of how to use HALE to create the appropriate references in a GML...
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INSPIRE KEN Schema Transformation Workshop in Marne-la-Vallee – Day 1 report
On 8th and 9th of October, around 50 people gathered for the joint EuroSDR/INSPIRE Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN) Workshop on Schema Transformation. The workshop gave all participants the opportunity...
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