Our Mission

Mobility comes in various formats: on the road, in the air, on the rivers, and on rails – just to name a few. It is targeted either for commercial transport, for commuting or for leisure. And it is changing continuously...

Experts’ Voices: Hacks and the City

With the introduction of concepts like Smart Cities it became necessary to connect information across the silos in which they were held. One solution is to extend existing formats beyond their original purpose and, thus, have them aggregate concepts and information from other domains...

Light (and Dark) Summer Reading

Summer was in full swing and people left for vacation to try to get a break from the rat race… but you can’t escape geodata! Lately more and more people asking themselves is summer getting hotter or rainier...

Mapping Outside the Box

In our blog we often talk about geodata in the road domain. In the last years some interesting geodata from outside the box got released and we have a sneak peak into it...

Show the Flow

Sometimes it happens that huge cargo ships lose containers and their cargo re-emerges somewhere else. In principal this is waste polluting the oceans but it get's interesting if we know when and where the cargo got dropped and when and where it re-appeared...

Show the Invisible

With the help of a good map you can find traces you barely can see in reality. This story is about preserving history using geodata...

Experts’ Voices: 3 Years – 3 Guys – 3d

Since the foundation of our think tank almost three years ago, Hannsjörg Schmieder, a unique expert on visualization systems for driving simulators, has been one of our most loyal readers and commentators...

Neglecting Accuracy

Public transport is part of our daily mobility business. But since some decades public transport is mapped in a schematic way. The question is why, because it started with geographically accurate representation...

Last Year’s Leftovers

2023 was, again, a year of extremes. We don’t want to be too political, thus let’s focus on some absurdities we have found in the ordinary world...

The Meaning of Live of a Digital Twin

Data is the fuel of our modern industry 4.0. Digital Twins are the solution for developing and operating more complex systems and systems of systems. But what is a Digital Twin? We mentioned that term already in our mission posting and now it’s time to dig into this buzzword...