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The 2026 wetransform Summer Offsite in Pictures
27.07.2026

The 2026 wetransform Summer Offsite in Pictures

At the start of July, the wetransform team came together in the beautiful Odenwald for our second summer offsite. Last year's summer offsite took place in our hometown of Darmstadt, so this year we went a little further afield in Hesse and met up in… Read More
Event General Interest Culture Offsite Staff Strategy Teamwork wetransform
Florian Esser
Florian Esser
Johanna Ott, Senior Consultant for Geospatial Solutions
Johanna Ott
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Julia Tillman
Julia Tillman
Kapil Agnihotri
Kapil Agnihotri
Moritz Bock
Nathanael Seitz
Nathanael Seitz
Sabine Weinmann
Sabine Weinmann
The 2026 wetransform Summer Offsite in Pictures

The 2026 wetransform Summer Offsite in Pictures

Event General Interest Culture Offsite Staff Strategy Teamwork wetransform
At the start of July, the wetransform team came together in the beautiful Odenwald for our second summer offsite. Last year's summer offsite took place in our hometown of Darmstadt, so this year we went a little further afield in Hesse and met up in… Read More
Florian Esser
Florian Esser
Johanna Ott, Senior Consultant for Geospatial Solutions
Johanna Ott
John Boudewijn
John Boudewijn
Julia Tillman
Julia Tillman
Kapil Agnihotri
Kapil Agnihotri
Moritz Bock
Nathanael Seitz
Nathanael Seitz
Sabine Weinmann
Sabine Weinmann

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Categories: Strategy

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Using Sensitive Location Data to its Full Potential – a Pragmatic, Full-Spectrum Approach

Using Sensitive Location Data to its Full Potential – a Pragmatic, Full-Spectrum Approach

General Interest News Projects Data Accessibility Data Spaces Data Usefulness Environmental Data FutureForest Geodata GIS hale»connect Interoperability Projects Strategy
Note: Should you prefer reading this article as a PDF, it is available for download here. Table of contents From Basic Authentication to Data Spaces The State Today: Standards and Islands Access Control in Modern GIS Systems Authorization: Role-Based Access Control… Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz
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
European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

European Spatial Data Infrastructures: A Time of Change

General Interest News Data Harmonisation Data Management Data Usefulness Environmental Data Geodata INSPIRE Interoperability Metadata Open Data Standards Strategy wetransform
Summary As part of the competitiveness and simplification political priority of the EC, the INSPIRE Directive will be “simplified”, with the biggest change being the removal of all requirements related to interoperability of data and network services from the legal text itself. Metadata and scope remain more or less unchanged. Read More
Thorsten Reitz
Thorsten Reitz