FOSS4G 2025

The Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) is an annual recurring global event hosted by OSGeo.

What to Expect

This year FOSS4G will be held in Auckland, New Zealand.

Organized by OSGeo and with more than 15 years of experience, FOSS4G is an international annual gathering of location enthusiasts is the largest global gathering for geospatial software.

FOSS4G brings together developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation. Through seven days of workshops, presentations, discussions, and cooperation, FOSS4G participants create effective and relevant geospatial products, standards, and protocols.

Conference attendees are

Developers and Users of GeoSpatial Software
Technical Leaders
Private Companies
National and International Organizations, both Governmental and NGO
Teachers and Education Professionals
Scientific Communities and Researchers

and the talks cover topics such as:

Software status, new software/project development, benchmarking
FOSS4G implementations in land management, crisis/disaster response, smart cities, population mapping, climate change, ocean and marine monitoring, etc.
Data visualization: spatial analysis, manipulation and visualization of geospatial data
Data collection, data sharing, data science, open data, big data, data exploitation platforms
Sensors, remote sensing, laser-scanning, structure from motion
New trends: IoT, Indoor mapping, drones, AI
Open and reproducible science
Standards, interoperability, SDIs
Community & participatory FOSS4G
FOSS4G at governmental institutions
FOSS4G in education
Business products powered by FOSS4G