2.0 -//Pentabarf//Schedule//EN PUBLISH SVBRTK@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -SVBRTK Welcome to FOSS4G:UK 2025 en en 20251001T100000 20251001T101500 0.01500

Welcome to FOSS4G:UK 2025

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/SVBRTK/ Create 1 Dennis Bauszus PUBLISH EQNXHG@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -EQNXHG Keynote: Kathryn Berger, Lead Data Scientist, UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) en en 20251001T101500 20251001T104500 0.03000

Keynote: Kathryn Berger, Lead Data Scientist, UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT)

Kathryn Berger is a Lead Data Scientist within the UK government's Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT). She joined the civil service earlier this year, after spending over 15 years working across academia and the private sector, building and leading projects that use geospatial models to better understand disease risk and turn complex data into something people can actually use. She is passionate about harnessing geospatial data to solve the challenges of global health and food security. Kathryn believes in making machine learning tools, data, and resources more accessible for social good through open data and open science. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/EQNXHG/ Create 1 Kathryn Berger PUBLISH PKXUXN@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -PKXUXN Routing in JavaScript: Introducing Terra Route en en 20251001T110000 20251001T113000 0.03000

Routing in JavaScript: Introducing Terra Route

In the open-source geospatial ecosystem, routing solutions often rely on standalone compiled binaries. While these tools are typically feature-rich and performant, they can lack the flexibility offered by JavaScript - thanks to its ubiquity to run across browsers, servers, and mobile platforms. This talk will explore the options when choosing to do routing in the JavaScript ecosystem. It will introduce a new library called Terra Route, which is a lightweight, zero-dependency TypeScript library for routing directly on GeoJSON network data. It will cover the core concepts behind Terra Route, how to integrate it into real-world applications, and how it achieves correctness and speed without external dependencies. It will also compare the performance and feature set of Terra Route with other routing libraries and why you might want to choose those instead in certain scenarios. There will be a demonstration of using Terra Route for near instantaneous client side multi-stop route drawing in the browser via integration with the open source Terra Draw library. This use case is perfect for applications that require fast, client-side routing without the need for a server or external API calls. The talk will conclude with a discussion on the future of routing in JavaScript and how Terra Route fits into that landscape. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/PKXUXN/ Create 1 James Milner PUBLISH ALNQMP@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -ALNQMP Addressing Range and Charge Anxiety for EV Drivers with Mapbox en en 20251001T113000 20251001T120000 0.03000

Addressing Range and Charge Anxiety for EV Drivers with Mapbox

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/ALNQMP/ Create 1 Sophie Mould PUBLISH BSJVUP@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -BSJVUP Estimating Shared Bike Trips Using TfL Data and Routing APIs en en 20251001T120000 20251001T123000 0.03000

Estimating Shared Bike Trips Using TfL Data and Routing APIs

In the open data and urban mobility ecosystem, GPS traces are often unavailable or difficult to access. This talk introduces a reproducible workflow that addresses this limitation by inferring realistic cycling routes from trip origins and destinations using the Mapbox Directions API. The workflow is developed in Python and covers data preparation, API integration, and geometry transformation. It produces both estimated routes and spatial aggregations with H3 indexing. Results are then visualised in QGIS and Tableau Public for interactive exploration. The project demonstrates how combining open data and accessible tools can generate actionable insights for city planners, policymakers, and researchers interested in sustainable transport. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/BSJVUP/ Create 1 Yuchi Lai PUBLISH QM3ZEG@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -QM3ZEG DigiMapper: Revolutionizing Urban Leisure Planning with Geotagged Social Media Data en en 20251001T123000 20251001T130000 0.03000

DigiMapper: Revolutionizing Urban Leisure Planning with Geotagged Social Media Data

The contextual application of artificial intelligence for improving efficacy has impacted all walks of human life, including urban planning. This work focuses on the advanced usage of geotagged social media data for urban planning, focusing its scope on identification of leisure hubs in London. It is based on broad capabilities of urban computing in combination with the sophisticated analysis of social media, revealing how the recreational activities are spatially distributed across diverse neighbourhoods of this city, jointly with public perception. This paper now introduces DigiMapper, a processing and visualisation tool for data scraped from Foursquare, which will merge sentiment analysis with machine learning algorithms and geospatial mapping. This would, therefore, enable not only new insight into the dynamics of urban leisure but also an advance on traditional methodologies in urban planning. It understands that the expected output would emerge a new synthesis of data-driven analyses combined with traditional paradigms of urban planning. The collaboration reinforces the planners and policy thinkers’ efforts to further their understanding of the role leisure hubs have in enhancing vibrancy and social interaction in an urban set-up. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/QM3ZEG/ Create 1 Asli Doga Kanturk PUBLISH WY3VMQ@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -WY3VMQ Pretraining Geospatial Foundation Models with OpenStreetMap en en 20251001T140000 20251001T143000 0.03000

Pretraining Geospatial Foundation Models with OpenStreetMap

The rise of large-scale pre-trained models, also known as foundation models, has sparked great interest within the geospatial community, to develop foundation models that can be used for various geospatial analytical tasks. To this end, we view learning effective representations from multi-modal geospatial data as the cornerstone of developing geospatial foundation models. This talk will then present our progress in spatial representation learning across several widely used geospatial data sources, gradually leading to our recent work on developing geospatial foundation models, particularly models pretrained using OpenStreetMap. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/WY3VMQ/ Create 1 Weiming Huang PUBLISH NCADHG@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -NCADHG Sharing Antarctic data using Open Source en en 20251001T143000 20251001T150000 0.03000

Sharing Antarctic data using Open Source

Whilst there are many options for creating data portals and catalogues, we at the British Antarctic Survey have struggled to find something that worked well for our needs. From simple problems such as the projection used in extent maps, to handling sensitive information to intuitively showing two sided maps. This talk intends to describe our experience trying to use common existing options, why these don't quite fit and trying not to reinvent the wheel with alternatives. It will look at the open source tools we've built so far, our current challenges, and where we're aiming to get to. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/NCADHG/ Create 1 Felix Fennell PUBLISH V3XDLT@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -V3XDLT She Measures the Earth (film & panel) en en 20251001T150000 20251001T160000 1.00000

She Measures the Earth (film & panel)

The screening of the movie will be followed by a discusion panel for meaningful conversations around equity, inclusion, and the future of geospatial science. https://www.shemeasurestheearth.com/ PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/V3XDLT/ Create 1 Bettina Zironi PUBLISH JRDAWV@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -JRDAWV OSGeo:UK Annual General Meeting en en 20251001T161500 20251001T164500 0.03000

OSGeo:UK Annual General Meeting

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/JRDAWV/ Create 1 Nick Bearman PUBLISH BJF3RX@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -BJF3RX Keynote: Mariam Crichton, INSPIRE Lead (Women+ in Geospatial) and CEO (7 Satya) en en 20251001T170000 20251001T173000 0.03000

Keynote: Mariam Crichton, INSPIRE Lead (Women+ in Geospatial) and CEO (7 Satya)

As a purpose-driven leader, Mariam's career has been dedicated to delivering global technology solutions that make a positive Environmental and Social Impact, particularly in the realms of Geospatial and International Development. At 7 Satya, she brings invaluable locational insights, emphasising Environmental and Socioeconomic (ESG) factors, to businesses worldwide. At Women+ in Geospatial she leads the Newsletter, Events and External Communications team and sits on the board. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/BJF3RX/ Create 1 Mariam Crichton PUBLISH FPW8XL@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -FPW8XL When Roads and Power Fail: Assessing Business Interruption from Flooding with Open-Source Analytics en en 20251001T110000 20251001T113000 0.03000

When Roads and Power Fail: Assessing Business Interruption from Flooding with Open-Source Analytics

Flooding threatens millions of UK businesses. While direct damage is well studied, the hidden secondary risks—like power outages and road closures—are often overlooked. This talk introduces a decision-support analytical framework that maps these indirect impacts, helping Rebalance Earth target businesses outside flood zones for their investment strategies. Built with open-source tools like PostGIS, pgRouting, and QGIS, the framework works at two levels: AOI-wide: Pick any region in England to see businesses at risk of losing power (via flooded substations) or being cut off (via road disruption). Business-specific: Estimate added travel time on roadways under given flood scenarios. By integrating flood data with power networks and road systems, this tool highlights risks that many businesses—and investors—don’t yet see. It’s a scalable approach to strengthening resilience where it matters most. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/FPW8XL/ Create 2 Gabriella Edghill PUBLISH QKV9ZY@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -QKV9ZY All Datasets are Meshes: Towards a new Ontology for 3D GIS en en 20251001T113000 20251001T120000 0.03000

All Datasets are Meshes: Towards a new Ontology for 3D GIS

The Thesis is that the Current Ontology - Is inconsistent and incomplete - Restricts our current use of GIS data and - Complicates the extension of GIS to true N-Dimensional analysis The contention is that a mesh based ontology solves these problems PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/QKV9ZY/ Create 2 Paul Harwood PUBLISH USUVL8@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -USUVL8 Rebooting Python Environments: leaner geospatial development en en 20251001T120000 20251001T123000 0.03000

Rebooting Python Environments: leaner geospatial development

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/USUVL8/ Create 2 Al Graham PUBLISH 9ZWDMK@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -9ZWDMK What to Do When your Favourite ETL Tool Gets too Expensive... en en 20251001T123000 20251001T130000 0.03000

What to Do When your Favourite ETL Tool Gets too Expensive...

An extremely popular ETL tool was made by Safe and is reportedly being priced out for some users due to new private equity owners. If you're still in need of an ETL tool, GDAL might be your solution, despite lacking a graphical user interface (GUI). GDAL is currently undergoing a new release that aims to simplify and improve documentation, offering a better-documented command-line (CLI) interface / API. This talk highlights and runs through examples and advantages of the new CLI and how they can benefit most organisations. These tools are primarily used for data translations, particularly from proprietary data formats to more open standards like GeoJSON, PostGIS and GeoPackage etc. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/9ZWDMK/ Create 2 Mike Saunt PUBLISH N3Y8NE@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -N3Y8NE Open Maps for Europe - Democratising data and Driving Sustainability en en 20251001T140000 20251001T143000 0.03000

Open Maps for Europe - Democratising data and Driving Sustainability

We'll explore both the evolving project requirements and deliverables as well as the technical challenges we've faced (and how we overcame them). PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/N3Y8NE/ Create 2 Aimee Rossi Tom Wiseman PUBLISH U7ZSUG@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -U7ZSUG MapAction: We need your support! en en 20251001T143000 20251001T150000 0.03000

MapAction: We need your support!

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/U7ZSUG/ Create 2 Sam Gandhi PUBLISH ZYAMM7@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -ZYAMM7 Unlocking Historic Planning Data with Open Geospatial AI en en 20251001T150000 20251001T153000 0.03000

Unlocking Historic Planning Data with Open Geospatial AI

Across the UK, archives of planning documents contain decades of valuable information about land use, development decisions, and policy change. Yet much of this information remains locked in scanned documents, static PDFs, and legacy formats—difficult to access, analyse, or visualise at scale. This talk explores the potential of open source and AI-driven geospatial workflows to unlock and structure historic planning data. It will present an approach for extracting text, identifying meaningful spatial and semantic information, and linking that to modern geospatial frameworks for exploration and analysis. Focusing on reproducibility and accessibility, the session outlines a conceptual pipeline that can be adapted by organisations involved in land and property management—such as land registries, planning authorities, and geospatial consultancies—who seek to make better use of archival planning records. Attendees will learn how geospatial AI can support land and property management by bridging the gap between analogue history and modern digital systems. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/ZYAMM7/ Create 2 Mark Corbin Lottie Cooper PUBLISH 3G8QZL@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -3G8QZL Danger UXB! British World War Two Coordinates in JS, Python, and QGIS en en 20251001T153000 20251001T160000 0.03000

Danger UXB! British World War Two Coordinates in JS, Python, and QGIS

During World War Two, British forces used a coordinate grid system based on a Cassini map projection and a system of grid letters and numbers. This system is of interest today from researchers wanting to understand locations in historical military documents and people trying to locate reported bomb sites to assess possible risks from unexploded ordnances. Someone asked about this grid system on the GIS Stack Exchange site. So I got into a rabbit hole of historical proportions, implementing the transformation in a spreadsheet, Javascript, Python, and finally a QGIS plugin. Along the way two other people expressed an interest, which led to some research connections being made and some iterative development of the plugin's features. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/3G8QZL/ Create 2 Barry Rowlingson PUBLISH 9HHT8Q@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -9HHT8Q Automate your Workflows with QGIS Model Designer en en 20251001T110000 20251001T123000 1.03000

Automate your Workflows with QGIS Model Designer

This workshop will show QGIS users how to automate their workflows, saving time and ensuring repeatability of regular tasks, using the QGIS Model Designer. You will be taken through the process of creating a simple model in QGIS, including advice on best practice, model management and documentation, and sharing and re-using models. Delegates should have the current LTR version of QGIS (3.40) installed, and should download the resources linked to this page before the workshop if possible. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/9HHT8Q/ Inspire Ant Scott PUBLISH TAQMJF@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -TAQMJF Administering Field Surveys with QGIS and Mergin Maps en en 20251001T133000 20251001T150000 1.03000

Administering Field Surveys with QGIS and Mergin Maps

### About Mergin Maps Mergin Maps is a web-based platform that allows users to work collaboratively on QGIS projects by synchronising project changes to a server using project versioning. The platform includes a QGIS plugin, server and mobile application that is optimised for data collection on mobile devices. ### What you'll learn In this workshop, we will use a combination of live demonstration and hands-on experience to introduce the Mergin Maps platform, workspace and user management, project setup in QGIS, field data collection, and synchronisation. We will also cover best practices for project management with Mergin Maps. By the end of the workshop, users should be able to: - Setup a Mergin Maps project in QGIS - Synchronize a Mergin Maps project to a workspace - Use your project in the field - Set user roles and permissions - Use Mergin Maps for collaborative mapping - View and track changes - Apply project management best practices ### Materials needed Attendees should have a mobile phone with Android 12/iOS 8 or higher. *Mergin Maps is an open-source platform that includes a QGIS plugin, server and mobile app. We also host a subscription-based SaaS platform that is hosted on our own servers and includes customer support. Mergin Maps is published by Lutra Consulting under dual AGPL-3 and MM Commercial licences.* PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/TAQMJF/ Inspire Ryan Aherin PUBLISH ADRXSR@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -ADRXSR Building Data Products the FOSS4G Way en en 20251001T153000 20251001T170000 1.03000

Building Data Products the FOSS4G Way

We may do practical exercises depending on what type of audience we’re expecting – new, intermediate or advanced users of QGIS – and the benefit to them. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/ADRXSR/ Inspire Nicholas Duggan FRGS CGeog Jayne Evans PUBLISH YB7BUR@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -YB7BUR EarthCODE 101 Hands-On Workshop en en 20251001T110000 20251001T123000 1.03000

EarthCODE 101 Hands-On Workshop

This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce participants to EarthCODE's capabilities, guiding them from searching, finding, and accessing EO datasets and workflows to publishing reproducible experiments that can be shared with the wider scientific community. This workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to leverage EarthCODE for your own projects and contribute to the future of open science. During this workshop, participants will, in a hands-on fashion, learn about: - Introduction to EarthCODE and the future of FAIR and Open Science in Earth Observation - Using openly available EO data and workflows on EarthCODE - Hands-on example with Euro Data Cube and Pangeo including: Loading and analysing data with Xarray; Visualizing data with HvPlot; Understanding how to scale analysis with Dask - Publishing data and experiments to EarthCODE. At the end of the workshop, we will take time for discussion and feedback on how to make EarthCODE better for the community. Pre-requirements for attendees: The participants need to bring their laptop and have an active github account. Q&A and Resources forum thread - [link](https://discourse-earthcode.eox.at/t/foss4g-uk-2025-discussion/93) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/YB7BUR/ Think Krasen Samardzhiev PUBLISH WHFCNV@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -WHFCNV EO Datahub: Using Data Streams from Space in your Geospatial Applications en en 20251001T133000 20251001T150000 1.03000

EO Datahub: Using Data Streams from Space in your Geospatial Applications

The Earth Observation DataHub is a UK Pathfinder project delivering access to EO data for effective decision making across government, industry and academia. We will explore the DataHub by browsing for data sources on the Resource Catalogue, searching STAC and importing data into QGIS via TiTiler, getting started in the Jupyter notebooks service, and testing the workflow-creation tool EO Pro. You will need a GitHub or Gmail account to sign in to the platform. Beforehand, you may wish to install QGIS on your laptop if you do not have the software already. The link for doing so can be found here: https://qgis.org/download/ Basic knowledge of EO is desirable, and there are no technical skill requirements to take part. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/WHFCNV/ Think Isabelle Crozier-Morris Gemma Newbold PUBLISH WXV9JW@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -WXV9JW Keynote: Alasdair Rae, Head of Data and Spatial Analysis at Lanpro en en 20251002T093000 20251002T100000 0.03000

Keynote: Alasdair Rae, Head of Data and Spatial Analysis at Lanpro

Alasdair has worked in geographic data analysis for more than 20 years and loves thinking about how to analyse and map things. In 2019 he founded Automatic Knowledge – a spatial data, analysis and training company. Prior to this he worked in academia as a Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. He has worked with clients of all sizes, from Google and the BBC, to national, regional and local governments – as well as small non-profits and charities. He has long been an advocate for open data in the GIS world and has co-authored three books and more than 20 academic papers on topics such as spatial planning, housing, deprivation, urban policy and transport. Alasdair has a PhD in urban and regional analysis, and his work has featured regularly in the national and international press. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/WXV9JW/ Create 1 Alasdair Rae PUBLISH L9ZGHF@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -L9ZGHF Fork in the Road: Developing a Free Gluten Free Map App en en 20251002T101500 20251002T104500 0.03000

Fork in the Road: Developing a Free Gluten Free Map App

In 2019, my partner was unexpectedly diagnosed with coeliac disease - which was quite scary, especially because it was something neither of us had ever heard of! We quickly scrambled to learn everything we could as she started a strict gluten free diet. It became quite obvious that so many of the things we took for granted and enjoyed doing weren't going to be as easy as they used to be, especially eating out. Much to our surprise, there was no good and/or free apps in the UK to help... and so Gluten Free Glee was born - initially as a blog and social media account, but after 18 months and over 100k followers, we launched an app in May 2025. After just a few months, we have thousands of active users and are growing every day, with our stand out feature being a completely free gluten free map to help users find and review places to eat across the UK & Ireland. We have no previous experience with mapping or cartography, but thanks to so many amazing open source projects, we've been able to provide users with a completely free map-first search experience and not break the bank! This is the story of how we got here :) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/L9ZGHF/ Create 1 Ranveer Sahota PUBLISH GDUAKP@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -GDUAKP Scaling Gender-Responsive Park Safety Insights with Open GIS en en 20251002T104500 20251002T111500 0.03000

Scaling Gender-Responsive Park Safety Insights with Open GIS

Focusing on Bradford, UK, we use open spatial data to analyse visibility, lighting, accessibility, and infrastructure. The result is a reproducible, open-source dashboard that supports local authorities and communities in making evidence-based, gender-responsive design decisions. Using open geospatial tools, this research demonstrates how reproducible spatial analysis can inform inclusive urban planning and be scaled across the UK to promote safer, more equitable public spaces. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/GDUAKP/ Create 1 Fran Pontin PUBLISH 3LMEBL@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -3LMEBL Integrating Esri’s Location Services with Leaflet and Cesium: Planning a Highland day-hike en en 20251002T111500 20251002T114500 0.03000

Integrating Esri’s Location Services with Leaflet and Cesium: Planning a Highland day-hike

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/3LMEBL/ Create 1 Matthew Akerman Richard Mumford PUBLISH YDTVTA@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -YDTVTA A GERS Tour of Leeds en en 20251002T120000 20251002T123000 0.03000

A GERS Tour of Leeds

From the beginning, the Overture Maps Foundation has focused on the fundamental challenge of data interoperability. We've been asking ourselves: how can we make it easier for disparate datasets to 'talk' to each other? How can we help organizations use Overture's unique IDs to attach meaning to a business, building, or footpath? The Global Entity Reference System (GERS) is our framework for tackling these challenges. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/YDTVTA/ Create 1 Dana Bauer PUBLISH YEUDUJ@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -YEUDUJ Help make standards fun and useful! en en 20251002T123000 20251002T130000 0.03000

Help make standards fun and useful!

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/YEUDUJ/ Create 1 Jo Cook PUBLISH ZGEVTN@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -ZGEVTN The Evolution of Open Geospatial: A Commercial View en en 20251002T140000 20251002T143000 0.03000

The Evolution of Open Geospatial: A Commercial View

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/ZGEVTN/ Create 1 Alex Wrottesley PUBLISH WB7YLW@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -WB7YLW Open Source GIS for Industry en en 20251002T143000 20251002T150000 0.03000

Open Source GIS for Industry

I joined CE Geotech shortly after the company began incorporating GIS into its field data collection processes. In the geotechnical industry, compliance testing is typically carried out across large construction sites using site reference grids, often created in CAD software. Despite this, GIS remains underutilized for marking test locations. To address this gap, we adopted GIS Cloud and its Mobile Data Collection (MDC) app, allowing us to capture both the location and results of field tests. This setup enabled clients to view data in real time through their own secure, web-based map viewers. While effective at first, the addition of Trimble’s location services to obtain centimeter-level accuracy on Easting and Northing coordinates introduced new challenges. Staff were required to switch between multiple apps: Trimble for location data, Excel for calculating test results, and MDC for entering and submitting final data. This multi-platform approach created friction for new users and slowed down adoption of the system. Commercial alternatives like ArcGIS could streamline parts of this workflow, but they come with high costs and limit our ability to control and monetize client access to data. To overcome these issues, we implemented a solution that combines commercial and open-source GIS tools. We established a PostGIS database as a central data hub, which integrates with GIS Cloud, Merginmaps, and QGIS. This setup allows us to automate the import of GPS data directly from our devices and input raw test results into a form that performs real-time calculations to eliminate the need to switch between apps. The result is a seamless, efficient workflow where data is entered, processed, and visualized in a unified system, while maintaining the flexibility to deliver customized, real-time map viewers to our clients. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/WB7YLW/ Create 1 Steven Rizo PUBLISH DZVYFH@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -DZVYFH This isn’t a Sales Pitch unless you're buying! en en 20251002T150000 20251002T153000 0.03000

This isn’t a Sales Pitch unless you're buying!

The open-source ecosystem thrives on collaboration, but its full potential is often hampered by the lack of accessible and reliable commercial support. This presentation will explore how Astun Technology, with over 20 years of open-source experience, has developed a flexible commercial support model to address this critical need. We will delve into the various facets of our model, ranging from one-off on-demand assistance to comprehensive annual support, including proactive monitoring for security vulnerabilities and updates. When combined with our hosting services, this integrated approach ensures that our clients' open-source solutions remain secure, up-to-date, and continuously operational. Attendees (including other open source suppliers) will gain insights into how a tailored commercial support package can empower organizations to confidently adopt and leverage open-source technologies, ultimately contributing to a larger and more sustainable open-source future. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/DZVYFH/ Create 1 Mike Saunt PUBLISH JTRTEF@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -JTRTEF Closing Wrap Up en en 20251002T154500 20251002T160500 0.02000

Closing Wrap Up

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/JTRTEF/ Create 1 Dennis Bauszus PUBLISH HTW3FR@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -HTW3FR A Field Guide to Building Serverless Geospatial Apps on AWS en en 20251002T101500 20251002T104500 0.03000

A Field Guide to Building Serverless Geospatial Apps on AWS

You want to stream tiles, process open data, or serve up a map — but which services should you choose, and what’s the best architecture? This talk introduces a Field Guide: a practical, no-nonsense resource for geospatial developers and analysts who want to get hands-on with AWS to build their own solutions. It maps common goals to real-world architecture patterns using services like AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and S3 — all building on widely used FOSS4G packages. We’ll walk through selected examples from the guide, explore trade-offs, and share what works (and what doesn’t) from real-world projects — giving you the tools and patterns to design scalable, resilient geospatial apps that are ready for the real world. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/HTW3FR/ Create 2 Tomas Holderness PUBLISH YFGEED@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -YFGEED What is the Hype around Hyperspectral? en en 20251002T104500 20251002T111500 0.03000

What is the Hype around Hyperspectral?

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/YFGEED/ Create 2 Isabelle Crozier-Morris PUBLISH KYMRGJ@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -KYMRGJ FAIR and Open Science for Earth Sciences with ESA EarthCODE en en 20251002T111500 20251002T114500 0.03000

FAIR and Open Science for Earth Sciences with ESA EarthCODE

The objective of this talk is to introduce EarthCODE. The Open Science and Innovation Vision included in ESA’s EO Science Strategy (2024) addresses 8 key elements: 1) openness of research data, 2) open-source scientific code, 3) open access papers with data and code; 4) standards-based publication and discovery of scientific experiments, 5) scientific workflows reproducible on various infrastructures, 6) access to education on open science, 7) community practice of open science; and 8) EO business models built on open-source. EarthCODE (https://earthcode.esa.int) is a strategic ESA EO initiative to support the implementation of this vision. EarthCODE (Earth Science Collaborative Open Development Environment) will form part of the next generation of cloud-based geospatial services, aiming towards an integrated, cloud-based, user-centric development environment for European Space Agency’s (ESA) Earth science activities. EarthCODE looks to maximise long-term visibility, reuse and reproducibility of the research outputs of such projects, by leveraging FAIR and open science principles and enabling, thus fostering a sustainable scientific process. EarthCODE proposes a flexible and scalable architecture developed with interoperable open-source blocks, with a long-term vision evolving by incrementally integrating industrially provided services from a portfolio of the Network of Resources.? During this 20 minute talk, we will cover how collaboration and Federation are at the heart of EarthCODE. As EarthCODE evolves we expect providing solutions allowing federation of data and processing. EarthCODE has ambition to deliver a model for a Collaborative Open Development Environment for Earth system science, where researchers can leverage the power of the wide range of EO platform services available to conduct their science, while also making use of FAIR Open Science tools to manage data, code and documentation, create end-to-end reproducible workflows on platforms, and have the opportunity to discover, use, reuse, modify and build upon the research of others in a fair and safe way. Q&A and Resources forum thread - [link](https://discourse-earthcode.eox.at/t/foss4g-uk-2025-discussion/93) PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/KYMRGJ/ Create 2 Krasen Samardzhiev PUBLISH 3WBLMF@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -3WBLMF Beautiful Hillshades in QGIS: Return of the Blend Modes en en 20251002T120000 20251002T123000 0.03000

Beautiful Hillshades in QGIS: Return of the Blend Modes

This is the third talk in a series that started at FOSS4G UK 2018, featuring the use of Blend Modes and Draw Effects (and Star Wars). This talk focuses on hillshading, highlighting the tools for importing terrain data, transforming it into professional-looking cartography layers, and then blending them into your maps. We'll then take things to the next level, drawing inspiration from the great cartographer Eduard Imhof and John Nelson's brilliant digital interpretations of his work. We'll explore how you can work with different colour gradients and blend modes to merge multiple layers into stunning topographic maps. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/3WBLMF/ Create 2 Tom Armitage PUBLISH ERPVAB@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -ERPVAB Remote Sensing Sucks! en en 20251002T123000 20251002T130000 0.03000

Remote Sensing Sucks!

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/ERPVAB/ Create 2 Al Graham PUBLISH UQAN78@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -UQAN78 Better Open Data - Cloud-native Geospatial Data for Northern Ireland en en 20251002T140000 20251002T143000 0.03000

Better Open Data - Cloud-native Geospatial Data for Northern Ireland

Cloud-native geospatial formats are changing how spatial data is stored, accessed, and shared. These formats — specifically Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG), SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC), and Cloud Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) — are designed to work efficiently with cloud infrastructure while maintaining compatibility with existing software. Interoperability improves through adherence to Open Geospatial Standards, standardised metadata schemas, and access patterns that work across different cloud providers (e.g. AWS, Cloudflare, Azure) and software ecosystems. The open specifications behind these formats ensure that data remains accessible over time, reducing vendor lock-in while still benefiting from cloud scalability and performance. This presentation will explore the benefits of cloud-native geospatial formats — specifically COG and STAC — on an open data platform underpinned by open geospatial and web technologies (Python, GDAL, Open Layers, and NGINX). The presentation will demonstrate how cloud-native geospatial data and practices improve data provision, access, and re-use, making the case that open, cloud-native formats should be the primary mechanism for data provision. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/UQAN78/ Create 2 Alex Donald PUBLISH AEMXCY@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -AEMXCY Recent Improvements to the QGIS Browser en en 20251002T143000 20251002T150000 0.03000

Recent Improvements to the QGIS Browser

During the talk we will look at: - An overview of how Ocean Winds are using and supporting open source geospatial software - The history of the QGIS Browser and the DB Manager plugin - The porting of key functionality from DB Manager to the QGIS Browser - Improvements to the management of QGIS Projects stored in Postgres PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/AEMXCY/ Create 2 Karl-Erik Wilson PUBLISH EWJ7WJ@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -EWJ7WJ Use of FOSS4G technologies in EU CAP processes, Case Finnish Food Authority en en 20251002T150000 20251002T153000 0.03000

Use of FOSS4G technologies in EU CAP processes, Case Finnish Food Authority

The implementation of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) demands robust geospatial infrastructure to support effective land management, subsidy allocation, and compliance monitoring. In Finland, the Finnish Food Authority (FFA) has embraced Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) technologies to modernize and optimise key CAP-related processes, such as the Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS), area-based subsidy payment inspections, and continuous agricultural land monitoring using satellite data. This presentation showcases how a suite of FOSS4G tools — including GeoServer, Leaflet, QGIS, QField, and QFieldCloud — has been strategically integrated into the FFA’s operational architecture. These technologies have enabled scalable, cost-effective, and transparent geospatial workflows that align with EU regulatory frameworks while enhancing end-user engagement, from government staff to field inspectors. The session will highlight practical implementation experiences, architectural patterns, integration approaches with legacy systems, and lessons learned from field deployment. Additionally, the talk will explore the Authority’s vision to further expand its FOSS4G adoption by transitioning from Oracle Spatial to a PostgreSQL/PostGIS-based spatial databases — aiming for greater interoperability, vendor independence, and long-term sustainability. This case study offers valuable insights for public sector organizations across Europe and beyond that are looking to leverage open source geospatial technologies in large-scale, policy-driven environments. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/EWJ7WJ/ Create 2 Pascal Coulon Tomi Salmi PUBLISH TEBSH3@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -TEBSH3 MAPPing Workspaces with Codespaces en en 20251002T101500 20251002T114500 1.03000

MAPPing Workspaces with Codespaces

This hands-on workshop will guide participants through the configuration of an XYZ/MAPP application as an interface for spatial data which will be hosted in a PostGIS database. We will be doing this using GitHub Codespaces so it can be ran directly in the browser - no installs required! By the end of the workshop you will : 1. Have your own fork of the GEOLYTIX XYZ repository. 2. Have your own Codespaces set up. 3. Have set up and connected to a neon PostGIS database. 4. Have added a new layer to the default view which can be drawn to and information edited. 5. Played with adding additional properties to the layer such as name, thematics. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/TEBSH3/ Inspire Simon Leech PUBLISH JKL9ME@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -JKL9ME Calculating Access to Services Using Open Source Routing Techniques en en 20251002T120000 20251002T130000 1.00000

Calculating Access to Services Using Open Source Routing Techniques

This workshop introduces a practical, open-source workflow for calculating access to services using a combination of multimodal and custom network-based routing approaches. Participants will learn how to prepare network data, generate travel-time catchments, and visualise accessibility to services. The session highlights the conceptual and practical differences between graph-based and multimodal routing techniques, and how each can be applied to support spatial planning and policy analysis. Designed for a technical audience familiar with Python, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, and geospatial data, the workshop aims to equip attendees with the skills to build reproducible, localised accessibility models using open standards and tools. All the resources for this workshop are publically available on GitHub via this link: https://github.com/carolinee228/FOSS4G-Access-To-Services For participants attending this workshop, if possible please complete any pre-requisite steps outlined on the GitHub page before attending the workshop PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/JKL9ME/ Inspire Caroline Thomas Tom Colley PUBLISH 88DKSH@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -88DKSH OSGeo:UK hosting a future international FOSS4G en en 20251002T133000 20251002T140000 0.03000

OSGeo:UK hosting a future international FOSS4G

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/88DKSH/ Inspire PUBLISH HSRBTJ@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -HSRBTJ PostGIS Views - Making Life Easier? en en 20251002T140000 20251002T143000 0.03000

PostGIS Views - Making Life Easier?

PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/HSRBTJ/ Inspire Simon Miles PUBLISH B8EGR7@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -B8EGR7 Automate PostGIS and QGIS using Event Triggers en en 20251002T143000 20251002T150000 0.03000

Automate PostGIS and QGIS using Event Triggers

During the talk we will look at: * What Event Triggers are and how to define them * Using Event Triggers to maintain the link between layers and their styles in the QGIS layer_styles table * Automatically retaining the association between raster overviews and a main raster table PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/B8EGR7/ Inspire Matt Walker PUBLISH PLT3P8@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -PLT3P8 Growing Success: Open Source Initiatives at Dorset Council en en 20251002T150000 20251002T153000 0.03000

Growing Success: Open Source Initiatives at Dorset Council

In 2022, we were thrilled to announce the release of our latest version of DorsetExplorer as a new open-source product called GIFramework Maps. This application has now been available for a few years, and we are eager to share more about its features and how it is already being used by others. While there are other excellent options on the market, we believe GIFramework Maps offers a fantastic alternative for those who want to develop with .NET using C# while still utilizing open-source solutions. We hope you will explore how this application can support your current goals. But that's not all! We are also excited to introduce two new open-source projects currently in development. The first is a tool designed to help councils manage countryside infrastructure (such as gates and stiles) and rights of way. Developed for Dorset Council, we are releasing the new version to assist others with similar tasks, in line with our policy to support open-source initiatives. The second project focuses on flood reporting and has been a partnership project in the southwest of England for many years. It has always been our intention to eventually release the source code to share the lessons learned. We are pleased to demonstrate how we are evolving the project and releasing sections of it as part of our commitment to the local digital declaration. Specifically point 5: “We will embed an open culture that values, incentivises and expects digital ways of working from every member of our workforce. This means working in the open wherever we can, sharing our plans and experience, working collaboratively with other organisations, and reusing good practice.” We hope this talk will give you a chance to learn more about the work happening at Dorset Council and hopefully it will get you thinking about how you can get involved and collaborate with us. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Talk https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/PLT3P8/ Inspire Paul Wittle PUBLISH MCV9AX@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -MCV9AX Live Vector Tiles from PostGIS with pg_tileserv: A Hands-on Workshop en en 20251002T101500 20251002T114500 1.03000

Live Vector Tiles from PostGIS with pg_tileserv: A Hands-on Workshop

Vector tiles are a key part of many modern web mapping systems, but they don’t have to be generated ahead of time and stored. Instead, they can be generated ‘on the fly’ directly from the underlying data. Importantly this allows geospatial processing to be performed ‘live’ when the tiles are generated enabling many complex geospatial workflows, as well as reducing the need to pre-generate and store many different tiles. This workshop will take you through the whole process of generating Mapbox Vector Tiles on the fly from a PostGIS database using a tool called pg_tileserv. We will start with an introduction to vector tiles and PostGIS, then move on to using pg_tileserv to generate tiles for database tables. After demonstrating basic tile serving to a local web map (using MapLibre) and QGIS, we will move on to defining PostGIS functions to integrate with pg_tileserv and do live geospatial processing as tiles are requested. Our demonstrations will focus on assessing flooding in the UK, but there will be plenty of opportunities for participants to try other sorts of processing. To reduce the burden on participants, we will provide access to a pre-populated cloud PostGIS instance alongside a pg_tileserv deployment for the duration of the workshop, allowing users to participate in the workshop without installing or setting up any software beyond pgAdmin (or an alternative way to run SQL queries), a text editor and (optionally) QGIS. For those who want to run things locally or continue after the workshop, we will also provide a Docker Compose configuration. It will be helpful for participants to have some experience with PostGIS and basic geospatial SQL, as well as a basic understanding of web mapping, Javascript and HTML. Instructions and resources are available at https://github.com/robintw/foss4guk_vector_tile_workshop. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/MCV9AX/ Think Robin Wilson PUBLISH FL9KBB@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -FL9KBB Web Accessibility 101: Making Research and Geospatial Applications Inclusive en en 20251002T120000 20251002T130000 1.00000

Web Accessibility 101: Making Research and Geospatial Applications Inclusive

This workshop is aimed at absolute beginners when it comes to accessible design; the content is very introductory and will centre “first steps” and the idea of web accessibility as a constant work in progress. We will have interactive polls and Q&A, but will not be coding. You can use a laptop or a smartphone to interact with the polls. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/FL9KBB/ Think Fran Pontin Maeve Murphy Quinlan PUBLISH DTSGG9@@talks.staging.osgeo.org -DTSGG9 Building Sustainable Open-Source Dashboards: Archival Strategies for Long-Term Access en en 20251002T140000 20251002T153000 1.03000

Building Sustainable Open-Source Dashboards: Archival Strategies for Long-Term Access

This intermediate-level workshop is aimed at attendees who have experience in building dashboards in R or Python, and presents strategies and ideas for long-term accessibility and preservation. The workshop will highlight different tools and strategies, and will include group discussions, and the development of a shared resource for future reference. Hopefully this workshop will generate new ideas and workflows for the community to use! We will have interactive polls and Q&A, but will not be coding. You can use a laptop or a smartphone to interact with the polls. PUBLIC CONFIRMED Workshop Long https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-uk-2025/talk/DTSGG9/ Think Fran Pontin Maeve Murphy Quinlan