Experts’ voices: The GIS year in review
We could hardly have wished for a better end to our 2025 series of posts than by (virtually) sitting together with Michael Scholz, research associate and spatial data cruncher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.) in Braunschweig...
Experts’ voices: Data Points and Politics – the Gordian Knot in Railroad Data Pools
From the very beginning of our blog, we have been fascinated by data, their handling and conditioning and how to make sure they can be stored in accessible pools in standardized formats. Now we are try to look into railroad data silos...
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...
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...
Experts’ Voices: Getting Traction on Geodata
We had the pleasure to talk to two geodata experts in the railway domain about collecting, processing, storing and providing geodata in the railway domain and the specific challenges...
Experts’ Voices: Sum – es – est – SUMO – estis – sunt
How often do you get a chance to talk first-hand to the brain behind an established product with worldwide impact? Well, we did and had a great chat with Jakob Erdmann, chief designer, developer, support etc. of the open-source tool Simulation of Urban MObility...
Experts’ Voices: There’s more than 15 Minutes in one Hour
In February 2023 we had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Krajzewicz, researcher at German Aerospace Center (DLR) to take a deep dive into one of his latest research topics: The 15-minute city...
Experts’ voices: Collect, Evaluate, Repeat
Reproducibility of data analyses is a big topic in scientific communities. On March 24th, 2023, we had a chance to talk about this subject with Dr. Markus Konkol, research software engineer at 52°North in Münster...
Experts’ voices: Materializing Ideas
Creating 3D models of reality is about much more than just shapes and colors. In October 2022, we had a chance to talk to Dr. Ludwig Friedman of BMW Group about his initiative “OpenMATERIAL”...
Expert Talk: Standardization in Mobility Assessment – there’s more than the last mile missing.
Mobility assessment is a fascinating topic. And so is standardization. But where would you find the experts and audience to combine both subjects? ...