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: 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: 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...
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? ...
Expert Talk with Brad Templeton: No standard answer!
How would you feel if you were chasing for the holy grail and then someone came around the corner and told you that it’s not holy at all?...
Expert Interview: Looking Across the Great Wall
In this interview, we are taking a closer look at mapping and digital twins in China. It's also a first - provided in both languages, English and Chinese....
Expert Interview: Alex Goldberg of MathWorks on map data, data formats and virtual worlds
Maps, are key ingredients to enabling mobility solutions. Alex Goldberg of MathWorks is one of THE experts when it comes to data and to the tooling around the whole data processing pipeline...