Data Week Leipzig: Tackling urban sustainability challenges
The GeoE3 project presented itself together with the Location Innovation Hub at the DataWeek event in Leipzig. The Hackathon Winners Award Ceremony showcased smart city solutions created by companies and teams of developers to promote the digitalisation and efficient use of data in cities.

Extensions to Buildings Provision in GeoE3
With the recent additions to the Buildings/3D Buildings themes on the GeoE3 Integration Platform, the building’s theme has become the most populated theme in GeoE3. Currently, there are seven countries covered in the 2D Buildings theme and eight countries in the 3D Buildings theme. The new countries added to the GeoE3 Integration...

What do companies think about GeoE3 data and services?
In 2022 Camille Cossec and I carried out user interviews to collect feedback on the draft GeoE3 service infrastructure and other work in progress. The interviews focused on users working in the solar energy potential and energy efficiency domain. We successfully found a handful users to be interviewed with the help of the networks of...

Launch of Location Innovation Academy
Learn about geospatial data interoperability Location Innovation Academy supports improving access, interoperability and integration of geospatial data and services, for free. The accessibility, interoperability, and integration of cross-border geospatial data and services have been accelerated in the GeoE3 project over the...

Mentoring at the Hackathon
Last week, I participated in my first Hackathon as a mentor. The challenge of the hackathon was to develop new innovations and ideas for smart cities based on harmonized spatial data of the GeoE3 project. The role of the mentors was to provide support, offer new perspectives, and boost the teams to win the competition. […]
GeoE3 publishes the first Data Integration Platform, connecting national, regional, and cross-border digital services
GeoE3 has published the first data integration platform demonstrating how vital connections between existing and emerging national, regional, and cross-border digital services can be made. With the newly launched platform, GeoE3 shows how meaningful analysis and visualization in national and cross-border contexts can be simplified for...
GeoE3 interoperability map
The national mapping and cadastral authorities have provided maps for several hundred years. However, an interoperability map is a new kind of map and a key factor in making the digital transformation possible. Between different public administrations (and particularly different domains) small differences in semantic structures may...
GeoE3 at the XII Iberian Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructures
The XII Iberian Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructures (JIIDE, in Spanish acronyms) was held virtually from 15 to 19 November, 2021. Held annually, these workshops are a collaboration between the Direção-Geral do Território de Portugal , the Govern d’Andorra, and the Spanish National...
A European undertaking for the effective use of geospatial data
Launched at the end of 2020, the Geospatially Enabled Ecosystem for Europe (GoeE3) project aims to improve the accessibility and interoperability of geospatial data. The project will cover various areas that have not previously been tested in the geospatial data sector. One of the goals of the GeoE3 project is to develop...