On February 10, 2026, I1 hosted a webinar entitled “Enterprise and Geodata Integration with Apache Hop”, which attracted considerable interest with over 100 participants.
The focus was on two new GIS plugins within the Apache Hop ecosystem2 (previously). These plugins have been added to those already available in Hop for quite some time. The compilation of potential future Hop extensions within the webinar was particularly interesting: The online poll I ran on this topic provided interesting insights into which of the suggestions receive most demand. The proposals and results can be seen on slide 27 in the webinar materials (pdf, in German).
I think Apache Hop can already be used with geodata, provided that the properties of Apache Hop and the open-source paradigm are taken into account. This requires a cultural shift towards open-source and a change in the architectural model to Hop.
The webinar slides are available for download (pdf, in German).
Footnotes
Transparency note: Pretty self-explaining. I hosted the webinar in my capacity as professor for Data Engineering and GISTech at FH OST.↩︎
“Hop” stands for “Hop Orchestration Platform”. While the wordmark looks as if “HOP” is all upper-case, the copy of the official website actually calls it “Hop”.↩︎