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FOSSGIS

association supporting free GIS software and geodata
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Summary

FOSSGIS is an OpenStreetMap local chapter[1]. FOSSGIS is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: geographic information system[3], free and open-source software[4], OpenStreetMap[5]
  • Member of: Open Source Business Alliance[6], OSGeo European Network[7]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf[8]
  • Country: Germany[9]
  • Instance of: club[10], OSGeo local chapter[11]
  • Headquarters location: Mainz[12], Berlin[13]
  • Commons category: FOSSGIS[14]
  • Industry: advancement of science and research[15]
  • Has part(s): List of service provider[16], FOSSGIS working group[17], FOSSGIS Jeopardy[18], FOSSGIS wiki[19], FOSSGIS conference series[20]
  • Inception: January 18, 2001[21]
  • Coordinate location: 52.4926949, 13.3304329[22]
  • Official website: https://fossgis.de/[23]
  • Email address: mailto:info@fossgis.de[24]
  • Web feed URL: https://fossgis.de/news/index.xml[25]
  • Affiliation: Open Source Geospatial Foundation[26], OpenStreetMap Foundation[27]
  • Official name: Verein zur Förderung Freier (und) Open Source Software (für) Geoinformationssysteme e.V.[28], FOSSGIS e.V.[29]
  • Motto text: Wir spielen mit offenen Karten[30]
  • Legal form: Registered association (eingetragener Verein)[31]
  • Short name: FOSSGIS[32]
  • Operating area: Germany[33], Germany, Austria and Switzerland[34]
  • Partnership with: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy[35], German Cartographic Society[36]
  • Calendar feed URL: https://calendar.fossgis.de/fossgis-verein.ical[37], https://calendar.fossgis.de/konferenz-orga.ical[38]
  • Privacy policy URL: https://fossgis.de/datenschutzerkl%C3%A4rung/[39]
  • Social media followers: 1234[40], 192[41], 563[42], 591[43], 655[44], 1950[45]
  • Mailing list archive URL: https://lists.fossgis.de/mailman/listinfo/fossgis-talk-liste[46]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [9] ↑ . wiki.osmfoundation.org. Retrieved . wiki.osmfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [5] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [13] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [15] ↑ . Q125526764. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [6] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wiki.osmfoundation.org. Retrieved . wiki.osmfoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . fossgis.de. fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . fossgis.de. Retrieved . fossgis.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_fossgis_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{FOSSGIS}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/fossgis}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-16}}
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