Why does a major avenue in a city runs the way it does? Why is a square located exactly where it is? The Spanish philosopher, parliamentarian, politician and diplomat Juan Donoso Cortés stated once that “In the past rests the history of the future".
16 May 2017
Last 29th and 30th of April, the sixth edition of NASA Space Apps took place. In this occasion, 187 cities participated all over the world, and Zaragoza was one of them. For the fourth consecutive year, this event was organized in @etopia_.
Space Apps arises as a NASA’s project for establishing a progress based on a more open, transparent and accessible science. The main issues of NASA Space Apps, and which are supported by @spaceappsZgz year after year, are the use of open data in ...
25 Jan 2017
A persistent identifier (PID) acts as a standard, invariant and long-term reference of a digital resource, regardless of their status, their location or their current owner. Although, several EU Member States already have governance structures, processes, standards, guidelines and tools to create, maintain, manage and use persistent identifiers in their respective Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), their approaches are different and are at different levels of maturity. That is why the implementation of persistent identifiers for spatial objects is one of the most immediate challenges in the implementation of the INSPIRE Directive.
25 Nov 2016
Since in 2005 Google launched Google Maps and popularised the use of raster tile maps in Internet browsers, there have appeared multitude of standards, tools and applications that make possible to create tiles, serve them in an interoperable way through Internet and use them by means of desk or web clients, smartphones or tablets.
Vector tiles, different from raster tiles, include information associated to each of the geographic objects they contain, instead of simply providing their representation as an image.
13 Oct 2015
From Internet beginnings there have been a lot of initiatives to facilitate interoperability and foster the construction of Web applications and services. In this post we are going to talk about one of these initiatives that is getting more and more relevance thanks to the impulse received from European Union together with big telecommunication companies as Telefónica .We are talking about FIWARE.
24 Sep 2015
En nuestra nueva web inauguramos un espacio donde compartiremos todas las novedades relacionadas con nuestra experiencia y conocimiento tecnológico.
Aquí podréis encontrar las últimas novedades relacionadas con nuestros ámbitos de trabajo tanto temáticos (medioambiente, hidrología, ordenación del territorio, etc.) como tecnológicos (apps móviles, IDEs, geomarketing, open data y un largo etcétera).