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...
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?...
Expert Talk: The Unfolded Truth Becomes a Tangible Asset
When we first heard about automatic Unfolding of CityGML Buildings to Paper Models, we were originally set back to this childhood mindset. But soon we learned that there are current use cases that might make a (literally) lightweight conversion of digital 3d models into scaled real-world 3d models an...
Expert Talk with TrianGraphics: Building a Better World
In late November 2021, we enjoyed a web-meeting with Stephan Kußmaul, managing shareholder of TrianGraphics GmbH, Berlin. Read more about our insights into data formats, terrain generation etc....
Expert Talk with SIMETRA: A Vast and Open Field
Russia is huge. Our knowledge about its mobility sector is small. Time for a change...
Expert Talk with AnteMotion: Rules vs Reality – Procedural Environment Generation
In simulation and geodata business, rules are an essential part of creating reality’s digital twin. Rule-based procedural environment generation is a convenient way of increasing the amount of data for developing, training, and testing mobility systems...
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...
Important Steps of Geodata Processing
Without data there is no simulation and no operations and we all know that there is no "one size fits all" data source. Thus, let’s talk about the processing steps of geodata to fill a data lake...
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...