Category: General

“Raumdatenpool” and Other Fancy Data Sources

The general practice of measuring the same areas again and again instead of sharing once-measured data and just updating them as necessary led to an interest in knowing whether some stakeholders got it right and spend money on creating larger data pools...

Symbolic Change

Have you realized that often road signs look a little bit outdated with historical cars, trucks and steam locomotives? And if you are enjoying German roads you may notice that they look kind of generalized and modern. But why...

The World of Data

On March 30th, 2026, the World Data Organization (WDO) held its inaugural assembly in Beijing China...

State of Maps

With the advancing of ADAS to ADS, new requirements arise towards map data. Also new tools such as Language Models influence map creation. Let's read the map of map creation...

Geodata and AI

Artificial Intelligence has made it into most areas of our life. It’s no surprise that the geodata domain is widely affected by it, too. In this article, we try to give our first impression on the current situation and activities...

In Map We Trust

Geospatial Artificial Intelligence can generate as well as check geodata. But which indicators can help to determine if the map is correct or wrong and how useful these indicators are. We also check strategies to work on assessing the trust of maps...

Blatten reloaded

Nature acts in a wide speed range. If we focus on our planet and our core subject geodata we see our data getting outdated by activity that lies somewhere between continental drift and volcanic eruptions...

Tariffs on Geodata

The speed with which everything is in motion is far exceeding our preferred rates for continental drift. To protect themselves, countries apply tariffs and levies on everything crossing their borders. We try to imagine what the consequences would look like for geodata...

White Spot Survey

The British Antarctic Survey has published the most detailed map about the landscape of Antarctica beneath the thick ice sheet. Let's get to the bottom of things...