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Datenportal Landesplanung Baden-Württemberg – Understanding Regional Development
20.05.2026

Datenportal Landesplanung Baden-Württemberg – Understanding Regional Development

A “Landesentwicklungsplan”, or state development plan, is the highest level in the hierarchy of German land-use planning. Since spatial planning and regional development affect our lives in many ways, relevant information on trends and existing regulations needs to be accessible and understandable for every citizen. The state development plan is… Read More
General Interest News Projects Data Accessibility Data Management Data Usefulness Environmental Data Geodata Projects
Moritz Bock
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
Datenportal Landesplanung Baden-Württemberg – Understanding Regional Development

Datenportal Landesplanung Baden-Württemberg – Understanding Regional Development

General Interest News Projects Data Accessibility Data Management Data Usefulness Environmental Data Geodata Projects
A “Landesentwicklungsplan”, or state development plan, is the highest level in the hierarchy of German land-use planning. Since spatial planning and regional development affect our lives in many ways, relevant information on trends and existing regulations needs to be accessible and understandable for every citizen. The state development plan is… Read More
Moritz Bock
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz

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SAGE + Forest Data Space + hale»connect = The Combo that Makes the Green Deal Data Space Work

SAGE + Forest Data Space + hale»connect = The Combo that Makes the Green Deal Data Space Work

General Interest News Projects conferences Data Accessibility Data Harmonisation Data Spaces Environmental Data Events hale»connect Interoperability Projects Strategy
In early May, I travelled to Oslo for the BVDA Data Week and the SAGE General Assembly. While the initial consolidation phase was not without its challenges, the project to build the Green Deal Data Space (GDDS) is now making good progress on several fronts. To… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
SmartForest 2026: Highlights and Lessons Learned

SmartForest 2026: Highlights and Lessons Learned

Conferences Event General Interest News conferences Data Accessibility Data Usefulness Environmental Data Events Interoperability SmartForest Strategy
The Lead-Up In March 2025, we organised the first SmartForest conference. We wanted to connect different professional domains within forestry, make digitalisation, AI and other innovations have practical impact, and to help build a strong digital ecosystem. That latter point is our DNA, as expressed in… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
Ronald Killian
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
High Value Dataset Metadata

High Value Dataset Metadata

General Interest News Tutorials Data Accessibility Data Harmonisation Data Usefulness Geodata High-value Datasets INSPIRE Interoperability Metadata Open Data Standards
The High Value Dataset (HVD) Implementing Regulation entered into force on June 9, 2024, with the aim of making a range of public sector data freely available to the public. The concept of high value datasets first appeared in… Read More
wetransform's product manager Kate Lyndegaard
Kate Lyndegaard
Johanna Ott, Senior Consultant for Geospatial Solutions
Johanna Ott
Generation Of cross-border PanEuropean Geospatial datasets and services (GO-PEG)

Generation Of cross-border PanEuropean Geospatial datasets and services (GO-PEG)

General Interest Projects Data Accessibility Data Usefulness Open Data Standards Projects
Many INSPIRE implementers we talk to question the usefulness of the directive. They see a lot of effort to create and update metadata, to harmonise data and to publish view and download services, but also see that these are hard to use for their own core processes, due to a… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
Akshat Bajaj
Akshat Bajaj