2026-06-30 –, A02
The rise of large language models is reshaping how we interact with information, and geographic data should be no exception. In this exploratory talk, we present IGN’s early work on a Geo‑Context MCP, a new interface designed to make France’s sovereign geodata directly accessible to AI agents. The goal is simple but ambitious: allow intelligent systems to query, understand, and reason over geographical data and OGC services—just as easily as humans do today.
We will walk through the first experiments that connect AI agents to WFS endpoints, structured geographic datasets, and other key services from the Géoplateforme. By exposing 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.
Finally, this talk invites the community to imagine what comes next. IGN’s initiative is intentionally open, experimental, and collaborative—an invitation to researchers, developers, and public institutions to help prototype the future of Geo‑AI interaction. How can we make geodata more “intelligible” to agents ? Which tools, standards, or abstractions should we build together? This session is a first step toward that shared exploration.
geocontext (https://github.com/ignfab/geocontext)
Assign a number between 1 and 4 indicating the level of technical complexity of your contribution.: 2: some technical/thematic skills required Select at least one general theme that best defines your proposal: Software status, new project development, Analysis, manipulation and visualization of geospatial data Under which license do you make your contribution available? The conference contribution comprises the abstract, the text contribution for the conference proceedings, the presentation materials as well as the video recording and live transmission of the presentation: CC BYEngineer at IGN for over fifteen years, and a photogrammetrist by training, I specialize in the development of tools for the creation of 3D geographical data (3d urban models, DTM, DTS, etc.). Currently, I lead a team of fifteen engineers, developers and UX designers. The main function of our team is to create tools for the production of data as lidar classified, raster (oriented images, orthophoto), 3d data (3d urban models, DTM, DTS) and mobile-mapping data. We are currently heavily involved in the development of tools for the production of lidar coverage of entire France, in large part by proposing Open-Source components. We are also involved in 3D geographic data visualization as one of the main maintainers of the iTowns library (also Open-Source).