Category: Oddities

Getting Support for New and Familiar

We had a look into the German research funding on automated driving topics because we had the feeling that something might be odd. We found overlaps and interesting as well as "interesting" projects among them...

People’s Republic Perspective

Have you ever visited China using a map service and asked yourself, why the road networks are not matching the aerial images? And when checking in China, everything fits?...

Land of Opportunities or Middle Kingdom

Most automated driving activities take place in the US and in China. Most of the automated driving players come from the US or from China. In both countries, commercial ride hailing services were already launched. Thus, is it all the same on both sides of the pacific?...

Happy Sliding

In German you often hear "Guten Rutsch!" when the end of a year is near. What does it have in common with geodata domain...

Relativity on Two Wheels

In one of my first posts I explained the difference of absolute vs relative. Now I have a different example because I also like to ride on two wheels...

Smart City Blast from the Past

Have you read about Toyota's plan to build a smart city called "Woven City"? Sounds like future becoming reality but sometimes history is repeating itself...