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APIs to map thousands of POIs can slow down or crash your system. Targomo’s new service solves this issue by using vector tiles in the MVT format, in addition to clustering. We will explain how these features work and how you can access them. Visualising POIs as Vector Tiles As with many other Points of Interest APIs on […]

  More than 90 percent of Germany’s population can reach a vaccination center within 30 minutes by car, but more than 2 million will need more than an hour’s drive to get there. By public transportation, a significant group will need more than an hour to reach an inoculation center. Germany has been vaccinating its […]

See the Big Picture with POIs Fast Points of interest — from supermarkets to cinemas, from schools to transit stops — greatly shape the character of a neighbourhood, a city or even a country. Being able to easily examine their patterns can deliver valuable insights into people’s movements, local preferences, as well as urban planning. […]

The Smart Country Convention 2019 provided a great overview of the challenges that digitalization brings to urban and rural areas. We’ve learned a lot from the bright and purpose-driven speakers, presenting their innovative solutions and strategies. The digitalization of the Public Sector, in Europe and in Germany takes place in societies that are heavily urbanized. Urban […]

When visiting this year’s Smart Country Convention in Berlin, one gets the impression that cities and municipalities globally are more or less on the verge of becoming “smart”. But is that truly the case? We found some lighthouse examples and one of the biggest obstacles on the way to a smart future. As we support […]

When it comes to location assessment, even the most state-of-the-art retail businesses still rely on methods prone to subjective biases and errors. This has to change. And it can change, with the help of science. Retail businesses can now take the wheel when it comes to predicting the visitor number and even the turnover of […]

Germany’s traffic is undergoing a transformation. Electric cars and bikes have been around for some time now and their number is growing slowly but steadily. However, another electric vehicle is gaining an impressive foothold in major urban areas: e-scooters. When traveling to Berlin, Munich, or Hamburg this summer, it is more than likely you’ll stumble […]