FOSS4G 2023 workshops

XYZ Cloud MAPPing 101
2023-06-27, 16:00–18:00 (Europe/Tirane), UBT C / N109 - Second Floor

Configure and deploy geospatial datasets, hosts, and mapping interfaces to the cloud for free (as in Beer).


We provide a selection of public datasets to use and show how to load CSV, and or GEOJSON to the Postgis extended database service bit.io.

We explain how data interfaces can be run on the local host in an Express application framework.

We show how the host can be deployed as a cloud function through the Vercel node.js runtime.

Every participant will have their own Openlayers interface to visualise, query, and modify spatial datasets.

Access to any dataset can either be public or private according to the nature of the data.

Requirements for the Attendees

  • Some basic understanding of the JSON format.
  • Node.js 18+ installed.
  • Git.
  • An IDE or text editor such as Visual Studio Code.
  • This workshop requires internet connection.

Having relocated as a Land Surveyor from his native Germany to London, UK; His 25 years of professional experience in the spatial information sector have seen many transitions; From field work and paper maps to digital, from desktop to cloud, and more recently from proprietary to open source technologies.