The FOSS4G Europe 2025 takes place July 14 – 20, 2025 in Mostar, Bosnien-Herzigovina. It brings together professionals in the geoinformation software realm. 52°North gives a lightening talk on work done on integrating tabular data resources in GeoNode.
12:00–12:30 (Europe/Sarajevo), SA02
From Challenges to Achievements: The Collaborative Path of the German GeoNode User Group (Marcel Wallschläger, Igo Silva de Almeida, Henning Bredel)
This year’s FOSSGIS takes place in Münster from March 26 – 28, 2025. Users, developers, researchers and other interested parties come together to discuss application, work and further development possibilities as well as the latest developments in open source software for geoinformation systems and open data. The conference focuses on web mapping, geodata infrastructures, geodata management, geoprocessing, geodata analysis and modeling, desktop GIS and free geodata such as OpenStreetMap. It also covers topics such as digital sovereignty in connection with open source as well as open science and FAIR principles.
52°North’ Student Innovation Prize winner Simeon Wetzel presents the results of his work on LLM-based assistants for data discovery in SDIs. Henning Bredel and Matthes Rieke hold a Bird of a Feather session on GeoNode and 52°North exhibits its expertise in various fields, such as Cloud technologies and DevOps, interoperability and data integration, Spatial Data Science with co-design, and provides insight in KomMonitor developments.
Come join us at our booth!
Bof2 (S9)
14:15 – 15:15 BoF GeoNode-DE (Henning Bredel, Matthes Rieke)
Bof1 (S8)
15:05 – 15:25 Comparing Ship Energy Demand Prediction Using Environmental Variables from Weather Forecast Platforms and Onboard Ship Data (Igor Quaresma)
HS3 (S1)
17:05 – 17:25 Development of LLM-based Assistants for Data Discovery / Entwicklung eines LLM-basierten Assistenten für die Suche nach Geodaten (Simeon Wetzel, Matthes Rieke)
Aula (HS1)
16:45 – 17:05 Automatic Refinement of Open Near-Real-Time Data / Automatische Veredelung von offenen Nahe-Echtzeit-Daten (Stephan Holl, Benedikt Gräler, Christian Autermann)
This year’s FOSSGIS takes place March 20 – 23, 2024 in Hamburg. The annual conference promotes free and open source software for geoinformation systems and open data. It brings together users and developers to exchange ideas on how to use, work with, and further develop the software, as well as the latest developments in the field. The focus is on web mapping, geospatial infrastructures, geospatial management, geoprocessing, geospatial analysis and modeling, desktop GIS, and free geospatial data such as OpenStreetMap. Topics such as digital sovereignty in the context of open source will also be covered, as well as open science and the FAIR principles.
52°North supports the conference as a bronze sponsor and exhibitor! Sebastian Drost introduces the concept of a virtual scenario function in KomMonitor and Henning Bredel leads the GeoNode Birds of a Feather meeting with Florian Hoedt (Thünen-Institut).
9:00 Anwendertreffen/BoF2 (H.08)
BoF GeoNode-DE (Florian Hoedt, Henning Bredel)
9:35 Hörsaal 3 (K0506/Audimax II)
Virtual accessibility analyses in KomMonitor for socio-spatial needs planning / Virtuelle Erreichbarkeitsanalysen in KomMonitor zur sozialräumlichen Bedarfsplanung (Sebastian Drost, Christian Danowski-Buhren, Isabell Rohling)
This event is held in German.
Geospatial Caravan – Embracing One and All
This year’s Geospatial World Forum was held in Rotterdam during the first week of May. Traditionally, the General Board Meeting (GBM) of the European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (EUROGI) takes place during this international conference. As a member of the German Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information (DDGI), Benedikt Gräler (52°North General Manager and Head of Research) attended the GBM as DDGI’s European delegate. In addition to the regular business of a GBM, EUROGI also signed an MoU with EuroGeographics to cooperate in promoting the use of geospatial data [1]. Ben was also part of an EUROGI discussion panel on the topic of current advances in AI for geospatial application. The discussion focused on what future developments might look like, building on the capabilities of large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT.