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GeoPackage in INSPIRE: efficiency and usability for geospatial data geospatial data.
In the field of geospatial data, encoding and standardisation play a key role in ensuring interoperability between systems and improving accessibility to information.
The INSPIRE Directive (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) determines the general rules for the establishment of an Inf…
Open data for navigating cities
Open data can transform how we interact with our cities, offering opportunities to improve quality of life. When made publicly available, they enable the development of innovative applications and tools that address urban challenges, from accessibility to road safety and participation.
Real-time inf…
Data activism: an increasingly relevant practice in the age of platforms
Data activism is an increasingly significant citizen practice in the platform era for its growing contribution to democracy, social justice and rights. It is an activism that uses data and data analysis to generate evidence and visualisations with the aim of revealing injustices, improving peop…
A common language to enable interoperability between open dataset catalogs
Open data plays a relevant role in technological development for many reasons. For example, it is a fundamental component in informed decision making, in process evaluation or even in driving technological innovation. Provided they are of the highest quality, up-to-date and ethically sound, data can…
Why should you use Parquet files if you process a lot of data?
It's been a long time since we first heard about the Apache Hadoop ecosystem for distributed data processing. Things have changed a lot since then, and we now use higher-level tools to build solutions based on big data payloads. However, it is important to highlight some best practices related to ou…
Trends in open data around the world
In view of the series of current and future trends around the future of open data indicated in our report, we wanted to check to what extent these - or similar - trends are already present in the global open data community. To this end, we have verified the current activities and future plans of sev…
Edge computing and its importance in real-time data management
Autonomous vehicles, smart waste management services, trainers that monitor how much we exercise... We live in an increasingly digital and connected environment, with greater similarities to the future we dreamed of as children. It is the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), a network of physical obj…
The benefits of publishing open mobility data in cities
Mobility is a key economic driver. Increasing the efficiency and quality of a country's mobility system contributes both to the strength of its economy and to improving the quality of life of its citizens. This is particularly important in the mobility systems of cities and their metropolitan areas,…
The transforming power of data in our cities
People, governments, economy, infrastructure, environment ... all these elements come together in our cities and they have to make the most of the constant flow of data on their streets to be more efficient. Analysis of the efficiency of services, monitoring of investment, improvement of public…
