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GeoCat Find

Your data, findable by anyone. No technical knowledge required.

[ GeoCat Find ]

Your data, findable by anyone.

A policy officer, a colleague in another department or a member of the public types a question and gets a clear answer: what exists, where it came from, how to use it. No technical knowledge required, and none expected.

Plain-language search ISO 19115 Reads from GeoNetwork
[ Search ]

Plain-language search

Users type a question in natural language and get a ranked list of results. No knowledge of WFS endpoints, metadata schemas or coordinate systems required.

Plain-language search
[ Metadata ]

Metadata attached

Every result carries what you need to understand and use it: source, date, format, coverage and terms of use. Nothing is left to interpretation.

Metadata attached
[ Relevance ]

Filtered by relevance

Results are sorted by how well they match the query, not by when they were uploaded. The most useful datasets surface first.

Filtered by relevance
[ Live ]

Connected to your catalogue

Find reads directly from GeoNetwork. Add, update or remove a dataset and Find reflects it immediately. No separate indexing, no manual updates.

Connected to your catalogue
[ Everyone ]

Accessible to everyone

Designed for the non-specialist. A policy officer, a journalist, a developer or a member of the public can use it without training or guidance.

Accessible to everyone

[ Why Find ]

Data that was always there, finally reachable

No more data lost in the catalogue

Most geospatial data isn’t hidden on purpose. It sits behind an interface that assumes you already know what you’re looking for. Find changes that.

Cross-department by default

A water-quality dataset from one department becomes usable by a policy team in another. No request to field, no file to export, no explanation to write.

Open to the public

A land-use plan filed by a province becomes reachable to a researcher, a developer or a citizen. The data was always there, Find makes it usable.

[ Pricing ]

What’s included in GeoCat Find

An on-premise catalogue you run yourself, with GeoCat’s support and life-cycle care behind it.

On-premise

GeoCat Find

Enjoy complete comfort and peace of mind.

  • GeoCat Live dashboard
  • Unlimited on-premise installations
  • 5 years life-cycle support
  • Response time of 0.5 business day
  • Quarterly setup support and strategic consultation
  • Delivered as a WebArchive release
  • Source code available
  • Two dedicated contacts plus support desk
  • Resolution time of 3 days for critical issues
  • 25% discount on enterprise consultation
  • Preconfigured and ready to deploy
Contact us

[ FAQ ]

Questions about GeoCat Find

Jeroen Ticheler

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GeoCat Find is a commercial distribution of GeoNetwork opensource offered by GeoCat, providing advanced features, support, and services tailored for enterprise users. Unlike the community version, GeoCat Find includes long-term support, enhanced security features, direct access to our experts and customized solutions to meet specific enterprise needs. It also focusses on both non-geospatial and geospatial data.

Aside from an on-premise solution, GeoCat Find is also available as a hosted service. It is a core component of our GeoCat Live offering.

GeoCat offers onboarding, quarterly consultation and up to 5 years of life-cycle support. Furthermore we pro-actively monitor and resolve vulnerabilities, inform customers of mitigation procedures and more. A support desk is available for questions and issues.

Esri is a closed, proprietary platform. GeoCat Live is built on open source software and open standards. That means no licence fees for the underlying technology, no vendor lock-in and full control over your data. Your data stays in open formats, published through standards that any system can use, so you are never dependent on a single supplier to keep your infrastructure running. For organisations working under INSPIRE or national geospatial requirements, GeoCat Live meets those standards out of the box.

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.

Yes, we can customize GeoCat Find for you to match your Organisation’s style guide, integrate with your authentication services as well as metadata schema requirements. GeoCat Find is delivered as a preconfigured package that directly integrates with your release management procedures.

Let your data work for the people who need it

Show us your catalogue and we’ll show you what Find surfaces, and for whom.

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