Category: The Five Pillars

Simulating Uniquely Modified Objectives

At GEONATIVES we spend some time to improve simulation by making them more realistic and therefore more reliable and spread the word about it. Is it worth to attend conferences which seem to have always similar presentations about hese topics? Yes, it is...

Simulation of Unknown Motion

When it comes to assuring functionality of complex systems, minor causes may have major implications impacting credibility of simulation results. From real-world situations, we would like to postulate that simulation become more realistic in how it resembles individual agents...

The World of Data

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

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...

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...

Niantic Spatial’s Large Geospatial Model

For every problem there is a solution and if we deal with geodata there should be also a spatial intelligence tool. This principle applies to "AI domain" as well and Niantic has a very good foundation for starting a promising enterprise to build a large geospatial model (LGM)...

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 If we focus on our planet and our core subject geodata we see our data getting outdated by activity that lies somewhere between continental drift and volcanic eruptions...

BIM in the City

Apart from the road we are also dealing with the representation of the rest of the environment and we talked about the usage of CityGML and BIM for that. Nevertheless, the difference still was not quite clear and that's why we tackle this task once and for all...