2026-09-02 –, Conference Management Room6
Bridge is a plugin for your favorite desktop GIS that makes it easy to publish your data to map and catalog services. It also allow you to search and consume your OGC services now.
If you need to publish your (meta)data to GeoServer and/or GeoNetwork straight from QGIS or ArcGIS Pro, GeoCat Bridge might just be the tool for you.
In this talk we'll show you how Bridge works and what it does: from converting native symbology into SLD or MapLibre GL JS, to publishing feature and raster layers to a variety of services, as well as publishing metadata records and linking them to your services.
Furthermore, we're excited to show the integrated Catalog Search functionality, which will allow you to search through OGC API Records (or CSW) from any server - including the one you just published to - and add the results directly to the map in your desktop GIS.
QGIS
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Sander works as a software developer at GeoCat bv, The Netherlands.
He dislikes writing biographies.
CEO/Owner of GeoCat – Chair and founder of the GeoNetwork opensource – OSGeo President of the Board of Directors.
Jeroen established the GeoNetwork opensource project while working at the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). A widely used geospatial catalogue application used for example as national and international level catalogs including National Geospatial & Open Data Registries and the INSPIRE GeoPortal in the EU.
Jeroen has been promoting the use of international standards and Free and Open Source Software for geographic data and information for over twenty years now. He currently serves on the OSGeo Board, and did so in 2007 & 2008.