• Co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.

    Welcome to the Academy!

    Location Innovation Academy offers 3 courses and 12 e-learning modules (see the courses below) to help government agencies, particularly national mapping organizations, make the most of their existing geospatial platforms and create an ecosystem of generic services that can connect various datasets and services with geospatial data.

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How to get started?

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We have made everything easy for you. To get started, you have to sign up to our platform:

  1. In the Location Innovation Academy, click the “Log in” button on the upper-right corner of any page.
  2. If this is your first time, click “Create new account“. Only our introduction modules allow guest access.
  3. Fill out the registration form with your personal details. The username is used to log in to the academy.
  4. After submitting, check your email for a confirmation message from Moodle. Check also the spam folder!
  5. Follow the instructions in the email to activate your Moodle account.
  6. Once your account is activated, log in to Moodle using your username and password.
  7. Explore courses on the home page and open the most interesting one(s).
  8. As a default, you must manually enrol in the courses. Click “Enrol me” to access the course material.
  9. Start learning and remember to give feedback!

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Available courses

Introduction to the Academy

Check this out first! Here you can find the following materials:

  • Information about the Academy
  • Introduction to the Courses
  • Glossary
  • Future ideas after the academy

Data Management

Acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data. This course includes modules that help you to improve the skills relating to Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) and develop your work. The modules include information, examples, standards and code practices. Material is targeted to developers working for National Mapping & Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs), statistic institutions and other agencies working with spatial and statistical data.

Including modules:

  • Open Data and Licences
  • Metadata, Semantic Enrichment and EDP
  • Semantic and Organisational Interoperability
  • Data Quality Assurance
  • Data Quality Dashboards

Service Management

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the OGC API Standards and how they can be used to facilitate the interoperability of geospatial services.

The course includes multiple real-life use cases in addition to general overviews and technical descriptions. The learning materials are cumulative, so we recommend exploring them in the given order. But if you feel confident, feel free to dive into one module or study them all!

Including modules:

  • Introduction to Standards
  • Common aspects of the OGC API Standards
  • Data Access Standards
  • Other OGC API Standards

Data and Service Integration

The modules of this course are focusing on the integration of data and services. Material is targeted to developers working for National Mapping & Cadastral Agencies (NMCAs), statistic institutions and other agencies working with spatial and statistical data.

Including modules:
  • Joining spatial and statistical data
  • Meteorological data integration
  • Applications for OGC APIs