“Raumdatenpool” and Other Fancy Data Sources
The general practice of measuring the same areas again and again instead of sharing once-measured data and just updating them as necessary led to an interest in knowing whether some stakeholders got it right and spend money on creating larger data pools...
White Spot Survey
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...
Experts’ voices: Data Points and Politics – the Gordian Knot in Railroad Data Pools
From the very beginning of our blog, we have been fascinated by data, their handling and conditioning and how to make sure they can be stored in accessible pools in standardized formats. Now we are try to look into railroad data silos...
Subterranean Mapping
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...
Light (and Dark) Summer Reading
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...
Mapping Outside the Box
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...
Show the Flow
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...
Show the Invisible
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...
The Meaning of Live of a Digital Twin
Data is the fuel of our modern industry 4.0. Digital Twins are the solution for developing and operating more complex systems and systems of systems. But what is a Digital Twin? We mentioned that term already in our mission posting and now it’s time to dig into this buzzword...
Experts’ Voices: Getting Traction on Geodata
We had the pleasure to talk to two geodata experts in the railway domain about collecting, processing, storing and providing geodata in the railway domain and the specific challenges...