To Build the Smartest and the most Interoperable Map in/about the World
Recently two announcements caught our attention: TomTom wants to build the smartest map in the world and the Linux Foundation wants to build interoperable open map data. Let’s look behind the scenes...
Expert Talk: Small Talk with The Valley
We had chance to sneak into the Silicon Valley to get an idea what has been and is going on in the Valley. With lots of technologies being hyped, we were most curious about the status of projects around geodata...
A Digital Twin Example
Since we started the GEONATIVES blog we talked about the usefulness of a digital twin. Let’s explain the idea and the advantages of the concept on a tangible example...
The Place to Be
Marketplaces for trading digital assets are emerging in various formats and with different scope. Time to take a closer look...
Build Something New or Process the Existing
There are some initiatives out there trying to pave the road for automated driving: One will really pave the road, others will try to explain them...
The Colorful Zebra and Zero Priorities
The real world is full of oddities. And unless they are addressed in your system's ODD, it might get tricky to navigate the interesting parts out there...
Format War: Every Format for Itself
We have to talk about the various amount of data formats, stakeholders re-inventing the wheel and the most important participant in this war without knowing it...
Geodata for Railroad Simulation
In this post, we want to shed light on geodata for railroad applications with a special focus on simulation for driver training. Engineering simulation is another use case, and the big difference is that engineering will shape reality whereas drivers and operators will consume it...
Expert Interview: Hexagon Geosystems – Aldo Facchin
In our very first expert interview, we had a chance to speak to Aldo Facchin of Hexagon Geosystems about digital twins and how to perform the process from data collection to making data available for different stakeholders' use cases...
ALP.Lab: UHDMaps(R) for Simulation and Beyond
From data acquisition via data processing to keeping a data lake and having the right tooling at hand – ALP.Lab is an excellent template for what it takes to act as GEONATIVES in this world...