Get Lost
The Russian government decided to start jamming the signals from the global positioning system in Moscow and side effects are impacting the Russian civilians...
Experts’ Voices: Sum – es – est – SUMO – estis – sunt
How often do you get a chance to talk first-hand to the brain behind an established product with worldwide impact? Well, we did and had a great chat with Jakob Erdmann, chief designer, developer, support etc. of the open-source tool Simulation of Urban MObility...
Educating Settlements
In the last years the hype started to make cities smart. Before autonomous driving got popular and after the mobile phones got smart there was the idea to advance the infrastructure of our cities to support mobility and living. Let's check what makes a city smart...
Experts’ Voices: There’s more than 15 Minutes in one Hour
In February 2023 we had the pleasure to talk to Daniel Krajzewicz, researcher at German Aerospace Center (DLR) to take a deep dive into one of his latest research topics: The 15-minute city...
Experts’ voices: Collect, Evaluate, Repeat
Reproducibility of data analyses is a big topic in scientific communities. On March 24th, 2023, we had a chance to talk about this subject with Dr. Markus Konkol, research software engineer at 52°North in Münster...
Claim your Claim
We once pointed out that borders are often just imaginative lines and could be confusing regarding the jurisdiction. Here we see that this concerns our daily life...
Experts’ voices: Materializing Ideas
Creating 3D models of reality is about much more than just shapes and colors. In October 2022, we had a chance to talk to Dr. Ludwig Friedman of BMW Group about his initiative “OpenMATERIAL”...
Getting Support for New and Familiar
We had a look into the German research funding on automated driving topics because we had the feeling that something might be odd. We found overlaps and interesting as well as "interesting" projects among them...
The World in 2023
While 2022 is coming to a close, the world keeps on turning and will make sure that also in 2023 we are set to expect further action around geodata, mapping, and simulation...
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...