Category: Oddities

Orientation of Language

Sometimes while looking outside the box we find interesting relations to geodata. This time we came across a research from 2010 working on the relation of how our mother tongue impacts the way we locate things and put them in order related to time...

Missed Opportunities

The end of the year is quite close and is celebrated with giving gifts to beloved people but we realized that there are some geodata-related gifts missing...

Halloween Special: Speed of Seasons

Yesterday it was still summer, now it is already autumn, and in some regions of the world nature is preparing for winter. It is impressive to see how fast seasonal mother nature is preparing for the next chapter. Have you asked yourself how fast this change happens?...

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...

Back from the Future

The traffic infrastructure in China is special, not only for its deferred turning lanes but also for its high use of I2X features...

Get Lost

The Russian government decided to start jamming the signals from the global positioning system in Moscow and side effects are impacting the Russian civilians...

Claim your Claim

We once pointed out that borders are often just imaginative lines and could be confusing regarding the jurisdiction. Here we see that this concerns our daily life...