[ Does this sound familiar? ]
[ The solution ]
From scattered files to a unified, searchable catalogue. All your geographic and non-geographic data in one place.
[ About GeoCat ]
GeoCat was founded in Wageningen in 2007 by Jeroen Ticheler, then a GIS specialist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. The software he built became GeoNetwork, which now underpins geospatial data infrastructure for governments, research institutions and international organisations worldwide.
GeoCat Team Software Engineers
We began writing code to make the world’s data findable. That is GeoCat. Born in open source and raised by a global community that believes public data should stay public.
[ Customer stories ]
[ GeoCat for a reason ]
See how open source gives you control, transparency and freedom that proprietary platforms can’t match.
[ How it works ]
The same open source software, two ways to operate it. Both come with our support, security patching and life-cycle care.
Your private instance, operated by us.
Your own infrastructure, our support behind it.
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GeoNetwork and GeoCat Bridge, plus the wider open source geospatial stack around them: GeoServer, MapServer, GeoNode, PostGIS, QGIS and OpenLayers, among others. Training is tailored to what your team actually works with.
Trainings are normally arranged for a team, but every so often individuals can join a scheduled session. Contact us for the current options. We also give workshops and presentations free of charge at OSGeo events throughout the year.
Training can take place at your favourite location anywhere in the world, or at our office in the Netherlands. Our office is connected to the national airport by train and several accommodation options are available nearby.
Yes. GeoCat Live started as a geospatial platform, but organisations increasingly use it to manage and publish broader data collections: policy documents, research datasets, administrative records. The catalogue handles both geospatial and non-geospatial data in a single searchable environment. For ministries and agencies that need one place to manage what data exists, who owns it and how it can be used, that flexibility matters.
With cloud hosting, GeoCat runs and maintains the platform on your behalf: a fully managed environment with automatic updates, security patching, monitoring and a guaranteed availability of 99.00% or 99.50%, depending on the plan. With on-premise, GeoCat Live is installed within your own infrastructure, so you keep full control over your environment, meet your internal compliance requirements and decide exactly where your data lives. Both options run the same platform. The difference is location and who manages the infrastructure.
It means the software is transparent, independently verifiable and not controlled by a single commercial party. You can inspect the code, audit what it does and be confident it will not change direction because a vendor decided to reprice or discontinue a product. It also means the software is tested by thousands of users worldwide every day. When one organisation funds a new feature, it goes back to the community, and the next organisation inherits it for free.
