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 Interview: Looking Across the Great Wall
In this interview, we are taking a closer look at mapping and digital twins in China. It's also a first - provided in both languages, English and Chinese....
Land of Opportunities or Middle Kingdom
Most automated driving activities take place in the US and in China. Most of the automated driving players come from the US or from China. In both countries, commercial ride hailing services were already launched. Thus, is it all the same on both sides of the pacific?...
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....
The Lost Generation of Automated Driving
Since 2016 more and more autonomous bus shuttle projects were set up. What have we learned from so many projects doing the same? And how does this relates to all the current SAE Level 4 automated driving activities? Let’s do a non-exhaustive research...
Expert Interview: Alex Goldberg of MathWorks on map data, data formats and virtual worlds
Maps, are key ingredients to enabling mobility solutions. Alex Goldberg of MathWorks is one of THE experts when it comes to data and to the tooling around the whole data processing pipeline...
One Year On
We started our think tank on March 30th, 2021. Keeping the initial spirit, we still consider curiosity, passion, and fun the main drivers behind our endeavor...
We are all GEONATIVES
Rendered almost speechless by the atrocities happening in Eastern Europe, it is hard to find the right words. But we strongly believe: On this single planet, we are all GEONATIVES! We stand by the people who are defending their freedom in Ukraine and we strongly support our peers who...
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...