This year’s FOSSGIS-Conference took place – theoretically in Rapperswil, Switzerland – from 06 to 09 June 2021. Unfortunately, it was not possible to be on site in Switzerland due to the pandemic, so the conference was held online. To say it in advance: This worked out excellently and was a very good experience. More than 600 participants enjoyed three parallel session tracks consisting of lectures, demo sessions and workshop. The company terrestris actively participated with various lightning talks, lectures, workshops and as an exhibitor. The usual professional exchange was held in the “network world” this year. In this virtual world, conference participants were able to meet the exhibitors and exchange ideas via video chat at the virtual stand.

A lot of praise goes to the organisers and technical implementers of this year’s conference!

To make the wait less long, you can find all the presentations given at the FOSSGIS Conference 2021 as a video recording here. (A big “thank you” to CCC)

From terrestris you can watch the following lightning talks and lectures (partly together with our partners) (talks unfortunately only in German!):

• “The cloud has eaten open source” – Arnulf Christl (5min)
• “Mass conversion of cartographic style documents with GeoStyler-CLI” – Jan Suleiman, Daniel Koch & Christian Mayer (meggsimum) (5min)
• “OpenLayers Feature Frenzy – Great things OpenLayers can do but too few know about“, Marc Jansen & Andreas Hocevar (ahocevar geospatial) (25min), Slides as PDF
• “Agile development, open source and official data” – Arnulf Christl (25min)
• “3D geoapplications with CesiumJS – data, possible uses and specifications” – Michael Holthausen (25min), Slides as PDF
• “SHOGun as a basis for flexible WebGIS solutions – Or: Neither “off-the-shelf” nor “fully handcrafted”. – Marc Jansen (25min), Slides as PDF
• “The road to a modern base map – potentials and challenges of cartography and data basis” – Hannes Blitza & Christian Fremd (City of Stuttgart) (26min)

The various workshops run by terrestris for you to try out and look up can be found here:

• “GeoStyler – One UI for all* styles” – Jan Suleiman, Daniel Koch & Christian Mayer (meggsimum)
• “Introduction to GeoServer” – Daniel Koch & Hannes Blitza
• “MapProxy in practice” – Hannes Blitza
• “react-geo – Mapping mit React” – Jan Suleiman & Daniel Koch
• “Orchestration of a SDI via Docker” – Daniel Koch & Jan Suleiman
• “Geodata styling in GeoServer” – Daniel Koch & Hannes Blitza

Next year, we look forward to welcoming you hopefully in March on site in Marburg at FOSSGIS 2022.