De val van informateur Hans Wijers begon met één lek en eindigde in een morele storm die groter werd dan […]

Community leader and committer to several Open Source geospatial projects. Mountain biker, coffee and beer snob.

An essential part of being able say ‘I told you so’ is in fact having told you so. Here goes. In April 2023, I wrote an article titled AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies. In this piece I also ann...

Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year. The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Flax Typhoon, which is also tracked as Ethereal Panda and RedJuliett. According to the U.S. government, it's assessed to be a publicly-traded

In een column van Ronald Plasterk voor De Telegraaf op 25 september wordt de uitslag van een stelling van Stand.nl, vast onderdeel van het NPO Radio 1 programma Spraakmakers (KRO-NCRV), aangehaald en ...

A right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands has erupted into violence as rioters clashed with police and vandalized a political party's office.

The Mapbox Vector Tile (MVT) format is widely considered the leading open standard for large-scale map visualization, as evidenced by its widespread adoption by major technology companies such as AWS, Meta, and Microsoft for their products and services. However, MVT was developed nearly a decade ago and, consequently, does not fully align with the capabilities of new geospatial data sources that are characterized by rapidly increasing data volumes due to advancements in geospatial sensors and automated detection through artificial intelligence. In this paper, we introduce the MapLibre Tile (MLT) format, a novel vector tile specification designed from the ground up to address the limitations of MVT. Our experiments, simulating user sessions on widely used basemap datasets, demonstrate that MLT achieves up to three times better compression ratios compared to MVT on encoded tilesets, with over six times better on certain large tiles. Additionally, MLT offers decoding speeds that are up to three times faster and significantly enhances processing performance. MLT also introduces new functionalities and is specifically designed to lay the foundation for the next generation of map renderers, which we expect to entirely offload processing to the GPU, thereby overcoming the stagnation of Moore`s law.

Je zou denken dat de komst van het internet van ons allen beter geïnformeerde burgers heeft gemaakt. Het tegenovergestelde is waar, schrijft Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer. En dat maakt van deze wereld zo’n g...