Category: The Five Pillars

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...

Infrastructure is not only about roads and rail. This time we dig into the ground to map subterranean infrastructure. The National Underground Asset Register of the United Kingdom tries to unite the data of the various asset owners...

We visited the InnoTrans 2024 to get an update about the state of affairs regarding simulation in railway domain...

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...

Summer was in full swing and people left for vacation to try to get a break from the rat race… but you can’t escape geodata! Lately more and more people asking themselves is summer getting hotter or rainier...

In our blog we often talk about geodata in the road domain. In the last years some interesting geodata from outside the box got released and we have a sneak peak into it...

Sometimes it happens that huge cargo ships lose containers and their cargo re-emerges somewhere else. In principal this is waste polluting the oceans but it get's interesting if we know when and where the cargo got dropped and when and where it re-appeared...

With the help of a good map you can find traces you barely can see in reality. This story is about preserving history using geodata...

Since the foundation of our think tank almost three years ago, Hannsjörg Schmieder, a unique expert on visualization systems for driving simulators, has been one of our most loyal readers and commentators...

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...