💻 Hackaton 2025

IGN and Ciril Group are delighted to invite you to an iTowns Hackathon on March 13-14, 2025 at the french National Institute of Geography (IGN) in Saint Mandé, France.

These two days will be an opportunity to discuss, program, test and learn - and above all, have a great time together! Book your place on this wiki!

📅 Dates and Times

• Thursday 13 & Friday 14 march 2025
• Start time: 9:00-9:30 AM

📍 Location

Géoroom, 8 Av. Pasteur, 94160 SAINT-MANDÉ, France

🚀 Project Plans

We have some ideas for this hackaton, but feel free to propose a topic of your own!

Here are the current subjects :

• Enhancing TMS support in planar view: GitHub issue #2290
• Clarify the current and target architecture
• How to improve performance: what are the key points to improve?
• Improve tile subdivision mechanism and fetching strategies
• Add perf regression tests
• Improving support for the Mapbox Vector Tile and Style specification (performance and visual alike)
• Support for the Mapbox RGB terrain format
• Experimenting with 2D vector accelerated rendering
• Migration to TypeScript (there is a lot of work here ;))
• Experimenting with "proof of concepts" with your data and use cases

👥 Participants

Please indicate your participation in the following table.

We're proposing a social event Thursday evening; sharing a beer (or other) together. In order to find a place where we can all meet. Please also let us know if you will be attending the evening.

Name	Email	Organisation	Thu	Fri	Likelihood	Evening
Antoine Lavenant	[email protected]	IGN	x	x	certain	x
Nicolas Bellaiche	[email protected]	IGN	x	x	probable	x
Maria Ibarra	[email protected]	IGN	x	x	certain	x
Raphaël Duhen	[email protected]	IGN	x	x	certain	x
Vincent Jaillot	[email protected]	Ciril Group	x	x	certain	x
Irénée Dubourg	[email protected]	Ciril Group	x	x	certain	x
Anthony Gullient	[email protected]	Ciril Group	x	x	certain	x
Quentin Bouillaguet	quentin.bouillaguet(at)ign.fr	IGN	x	x	certain	x
Gérald Choqueux		ENSG/Lastig	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:
Line Gallen	[email protected]	IGN	x	x	certain	x
Madec Germerie Guizouarn	[email protected]	IGN	x	x	certain	x
Clément Colin	[email protected]	Carl Berger-Levrault	x	x	certain	x
Julius Bañgate	[email protected]	IGN/ENSG/Lastig	x	x	certain

🔧 Individual preparation

• Bring your own laptop
• Install Git and come with a working development environment
• It would be great if you have already your own fork of iTowns!

📧 Contact

• quentin.bouillaguet(at)ign.fr
• antoine.lavenant(at)ign.fr
• maria.ibarra(at)ign.fr