Future of Interlis

The #Interlis Discourse Forum currently hosts a discussion among experts reflecting on strengths and weaknesses and the future of the #datamodeling and #dataexchange #standard. Meanwhile, materials for the upcoming Interlis User Group Meeting were published today, continuing the community’s dialogue on Interlis development and practice.
Author

Ralph Straumann

Published

October 29, 2025

The Interlis Discourse Forum features a discussion (in German, so far) among a number of experts on the future of this Swiss modeling language and geodata exchange standard.

The occasion is the announcement by Pirmin Kalberer about his retreat from the SOGI GGMM1 and an earlier Interlis-centric working group. Pirmin reflects on Interlis support in GDAL, strenghts and weaknesses of Interlis and ideas for the future.

In somewhat related news: Slides and materials of the (fifth) Interlis User Group Meeting were published today.

Footnotes

  1. The SOGI GGMM is the working group on “geonorms and the model-based method” of the Swiss Organization for Geoinformation (SOGI/OSIG).↩︎