BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//pretalx//talks.osgeo.org//foss4g-europe-2026//speaker//MTM7T9 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:EET BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20001029T050000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:EET TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20000326T040000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EEST TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-foss4g-europe-2026-VLFQFH@talks.osgeo.org DTSTART;TZID=EET:20260629T153000 DTEND;TZID=EET:20260629T160000 DESCRIPTION:As part of its data production workflows\, the IGN (the French National Mapping Agency) has developped many QGIS plugins that can be of i nterest to the QGIS community and we have created QGIS Plugin to ease the access to services of the Geoplateforme \n\n* Géoservices : \n - The GPF Isochrone–Isodistance–Routing plugin brings Géoplateforme’s mob ility services into QGIS\, offering fast isochrone\, distance\, and routin g calculations. IGN supervised its development with Oslandia. \n - The French Locator Filter adds high‑quality French geocoding to QGIS using the Géoplateforme API. IGN funded the feature and coordinated the subcont racting with Oslandia. \n\n\n* Data production tools : A first plugin\, “Espace co\,” has recently become available\; its purpose is to allow users to populate specialized collaborative databases\, such as BDTopo (th e French national database). It is available here : https://plugins.qgis .org/plugins/ign_espace_collaboratif/ \n\n* Other plugins are currently un der development\, and we will strive to make them all available. A non-ex haustive list of what we plan to develop: \n - View plugin to have pr edefined styles based on data at your fingertips and to be able to share t hese styles among people working together. \n - Plugin for improved Z- axis management (visualization and correction) in QGIS \n - Plugin for managing lists of objects\, saving them\, and creating new ones… \n - Plugin for calculating the shortest path\, \n - Plugin for digitiza tion direction\, \n\nWe are offering this presentation to explain our appr oach: why we chose to develop QGIS plugins and why we chose to make them a vailable. We will present examples of use cases based on our own needs. \n\nThis presentation will allow us to gauge whether the QGIS community mi ght be interested in these developments\, potentially use them\, and perha ps even contribute to them. DTSTAMP:20260605T045616Z LOCATION:A11 SUMMARY:Boosting QGIS: What France’s Mapping Agency Adds to the Toolbox - lavenant\, Rémi Ferrier URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/talk/VLFQFH/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-foss4g-europe-2026-GW3YWD@talks.osgeo.org DTSTART;TZID=EET:20260630T103000 DTEND;TZID=EET:20260630T110000 DESCRIPTION:As a public agency\, IGN has an obligation to publish in open f ormat the data it produces and some of the code it develops. But our commi tment to Open Source goes beyond giving access to the code produced and fo r more than ten years\, IGN (the French map agency) has been engaged in cr eating Digital Commons\, both in terms of data and in terms of code. In ad dition to contributing to well-known open-source libraries (pdal\, gdal\, etc.)\, our developers push a large part of their code on public repositor y on github. And\, for some\, we are working to build and animate a commun ity of contributors and users. \n\nIn this conference\, we will explain wh y a national mapping agency has chosen to adopt such an approach and why w e believe Digital Commons are strategic to build a sustainable and collabo rative future. We will give a quick overview of the code we are making ope n source and the organization that this involves (in particular\, the crea tion of an Open Source Program Office - OSPO). \n\nFinally\, we will prese nt our recent activities\, organizational (internal drafting of guides\, F AQs\, etc.) and technical (new project and ongoing developments) and also contributions we can make with other organizations and companies involved in open source initiatives (notably participation in Tosit\, a gathering o f French companies focused on open source). DTSTAMP:20260605T045616Z LOCATION:Auditorium SUMMARY:National map Agency - how to build Digital Commons ? - lavenant\, R émi Ferrier URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/talk/GW3YWD/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-foss4g-europe-2026-VKNKM3@talks.osgeo.org DTSTART;TZID=EET:20260630T123000 DTEND;TZID=EET:20260630T130000 DESCRIPTION:The Géoplateforme is the new national infrastructure for geogr aphic data in France\, designed to offer administrations a unified\, scala ble\, and sovereign environment for storing\, distributing\, and visualisi ng geospatial information. It provides a full suite of mutualized services —from secure hosting and high‑performance data distribution to ready ‑to‑use visualization tools—that allow public bodies to focus on the ir missions rather than on infrastructure. On top of these core capabiliti es\, the platform also delivers reference geocoding and reverse‑geocodin g\, altimetry services\, and route and itinerary computation\, making it a comprehensive ecosystem for producing and consuming geodata at national s cale. This infrastructure guarantees sovereign and secure access to geogra phical data and maps without relying on Gafam services. \n\nTo build this platform\, we relied heavily on open‑source technologies\, combining ma ture\, community‑driven components with tools specifically developed at IGN to meet national requirements. \n\nFinally\, we are committed to open ‑sourcing the code behind our infrastructure and progressively sharing t he building blocks that power the Géoplateforme and cartes.gouv.fr. Our s trategy is not only to publish code\, but to build a real community around it\, inviting administrations\, researchers\, companies\, and contributor s to shape its evolution. By opening the doors to collaborative developmen t\, we aim to create a sustainable and transparent geospatial commons for France—one that grows through shared expertise\, pooled investment\, and a collective ambition to strengthen national geodata services through ope n innovation. DTSTAMP:20260605T045616Z LOCATION:A13 SUMMARY:Powering France’s Maps: The Open Tech Behind Géoplateforme & car tes.gouv.fr - lavenant\, Rémi Ferrier URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/talk/VKNKM3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-foss4g-europe-2026-SM7QL9@talks.osgeo.org DTSTART;TZID=EET:20260630T153000 DTEND;TZID=EET:20260630T160000 DESCRIPTION:The rise of large language models is reshaping how we interact with information\, and geographic data should be no exception. In this exp loratory talk\, we present IGN’s early work on a Geo‑Context MCP\, a n ew interface designed to make France’s sovereign geodata directly access ible to AI agents. The goal is simple but ambitious: allow intelligent sys tems to query\, understand\, and reason over geographical data and OGC ser vices—just as easily as humans do today. \n\nWe will walk through the fi rst experiments that connect AI agents to WFS endpoints\, structured geogr aphic datasets\, and other key services from the Géoplateforme. By exposi ng geodata through a machine‑native contextual layer\, IGN aims to lower the barrier between spatial information and AI‑driven analysis. We hope this can open the door to new forms of automated geoprocessing\, enriched decision‑making\, and dynamic geospatial exploration. \n\nFinally\, thi s talk invites the community to imagine what comes next. IGN’s initiativ e is intentionally open\, experimental\, and collaborative—an invitation to researchers\, developers\, and public institutions to help prototype t he future of Geo‑AI interaction. How can we make geodata more “intelli gible” to agents ? Which tools\, standards\, or abstractions should we b uild together? This session is a first step toward that shared exploration . DTSTAMP:20260605T045616Z LOCATION:A02 SUMMARY:“Beyond Maps: Prototyping a Geo‑Context Layer for the AI‑Driv en Future” - lavenant\, Rémi Ferrier URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/talk/SM7QL9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-foss4g-europe-2026-JM8S7N@talks.osgeo.org DTSTART;TZID=EET:20260701T113000 DTEND;TZID=EET:20260701T120000 DESCRIPTION:IGN (French National Map Agency) and its partners are launching the JUNN project : A dynamic 3D digital replica of the territory with o nline services to interact with (visualization\, immersive navigation\, si mulation). A tool that aims to federate data\, technologies\, communities and existing initiatives to collectively gain efficiency for the ecologica l transition.​ \n\nThis digital twin of France and its territories is a tool-based approach\, supported by a consortium of public and private play ers\, enabling the development of a common Open-Source architecture built in support of identified business usescases. \n\nObjectives are multiples: \n* Reducing the cost of local initiatives and facilitate their replicat ion in other areas\, \n* Establishing a framework for interoperability and interface between different projects \n* Setting up a science platform to facilitate the development of technological advances from R&D\, \n* Build ing an ecosystem of services and business applications with high added val ue \n\nThe project will include 3D data production with 3D mesh data and C ityGML LOD 2.2 data. The 3D meshes will be generated using the Wasure soft ware (https://github.com/lcaraffa/sparkling-wasure)\, which was developed based on research conducted by the Lastig research laboratory. This softwa re will be further refined during the project\, in collaboration with INRI A and GeometryFactory. \n\nSome of the CityGML data will also be produced by the IGN. Initial tests using the Open-Source Roofer software (https://g ithub.com/3DBAG/roofer) have yielded promising results (https://batiment3d .ign.fr/) regarding what the Digital Twin data might look like. \n\nThis p latform is intended to serve as a hub for scientific research\, where it w ill be possible to connect simulators that have access to the platform’s extensive dataset. This will be the case\, for example\, with the ICI pro ject (https://x-ngilet.gitlabpages.inria.fr/html_covici/index.html)\, whic h offers models of epidemic spread and whose access to the data will impro ve predictions \n\nFor visualization\, we will use the open-source renderi ng engine iTowns (https://www.itowns-project.org/)\, to which IGN is a maj or contributor. Already high-performing\, the close collaboration between the Digital Twin team and the iTowns development team will ensure that thi s tool is fully compatible with what we will be offering. \n\nWe are propo sing this presentation to give the OSGeo community an overview of the proj ect. This presentation will introduce the various open-source software com ponents we will be using\, some of which we will be enhancing (Wasure\, iT owns\, Rok4\, Roofer\, etc.). DTSTAMP:20260605T045616Z LOCATION:A12 SUMMARY:JUNN – a french DigitalTwin initiative - lavenant\, Rémi Ferrier URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2026/talk/JM8S7N/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR