Superset
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Business Intelligence meets Cartography

Jan Suleiman, terrestris GmbH & Co. KG
FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Jan Suleiman

  • M.Sc. Geoinformatics
  • Full-Stack Developer
    @terrestris, Bonn, Germany
  • OSGeo Charter Member
  • GeoStyler Core Developer
  • Superset Plugin Developer
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Content

  1. Superset Basics
  2. Thematic Maps in Superset
  3. State of Development
  4. Future Developments
Link to slides:
https://terrestris.github.io/foss4g-e-2025/talks/2025-07-16-suleiman-superset.html
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Superset Basics

  • Data exploration and visualization platform
  • No-Code / Low-Code
  • Arrange charts on interactive
    dashboards
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Superset Basics

  • Apache-2.0 license
  • Active community
  • Plugin architecture for visualizations
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Superset Basics

Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Thematic Maps in Superset

Current Map Plugins
  • Broad Variety
  • But: many based on mapbox-gl
    • Closed Source
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Thematic Maps in Superset

Current Map Plugins
  • Cartodiagram
    • Arbitrary charts on maps
    • Released in Superset 5
  • Thematic Map
    • Choropleth, Proportional Symbol, …
    • Currently as fork
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Thematic Maps in Superset

Libraries
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Thematic Maps in Superset

Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Thematic Maps in Superset

Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Thematic Maps in Superset

Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

State of Development

Done
  • Official Cartodiagram Plugin (Superset 5)
  • Support for GeoJSON
  • Arbitrary map projections
  • Configurability
    • Map extent
    • Zoom levels
    • Background layers
In Development
  • Support for WKB, WKT
  • Support for WFS as data source
  • Finalizing Thematic Map Plugin
  • Cross Filters for Thematic Maps
Up-to-date dev image: ghcr.io/terrestris/superset:latest
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Future Developments

  • Animated timeslider
  • OGC API Features as data source
  • Sensor Things API as data source
Up-to-date dev image: ghcr.io/terrestris/superset:latest
Superset - Business Intelligence meets Cartography, FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Imprint

Author

Jan Suleiman
terrestris GmbH & Co. KG
Kölnstr. 99, 53111 Bonn, Germany
suleiman@terrestris.de

Questions?