After a lengthy preparation period and more than a year of programming, we finally succeeded in September 2025. Together with the canton of Schwyz, we were able to migrate the first office to the new alma software as a successor solution to Altlast4Web.
Elke's short interview provides exciting insights into our environmental projects and shows how important sustainability is to her and to geOps.
We deliberately chose to end the year at geOps with a workshop, a review of the year, and a joint cooking evening. It was a time for exchange, good food, and looking back and forward together.
mobility-toolbox-js serves as the primary gateway for developing geospatial web applications using our geOps in-house APIs. This project has existed for years, but version 3 brings massive improvements in terms of development experience, ease of use and integration into existing applications.
Less effort, more transparency: We have developed a digital solution for the Lucerne Transport Association (Verkehrsverbung Luzern VVL) that significantly simplifies the calculation of municipal contributions.
A quick look at how switching to uv improved our Python workflow, replacing tools like pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv with a faster, all-in-one solution—plus tips for migrating existing projects.
Two days out and about between model railroads, timetables and vineyards: our company excursion this year combined technology, team spirit and enjoyment in a perfectly timed manner.
In our new interview series “Faces of geOps”, we introduce you to colleagues from the geOps team. Today: Jessi, software engineer with a career change background.
The TreeApp has been technically modernized - with TypeScript, Next.js and an integrated database for recommendations. Improved performance, mobile usability and new functions such as sharing your own tree species recommendations round off the update.
We are pleased to announce our participation in the 2nd ÖPNV-Zukunftskongress from May 5 to 7, 2025 in Freiburg im Breisgau!
Zwei Frontend-Entwickler von geOps machten sich nach Amsterdam auf, um an der performance.now() teilzunehmen, einer zweitägigen Konferenz mit vierzehn erstklassigen Sessions, die die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse zur Web-Performance von heute behandeln.
Im Juli fuhren zwei Backendentwickler mit dem Nachtzug nach Prag, um an der EuroPython teilzunehmen.
A brewery tour at an altitude of 1,000 meters and a visit to a cavern power plant deep below the mountain were on the agenda for the geOps company outing.
For some time now, some of our apps have offered the export of our maps in PDF format. This article presents our solutions for some updates of this feature.
How to snap points to a line string in a given order and what it has to do with quality assurance when importing public transport schedules.
Over the past two weeks, we have been working on the question of how alternative travel options can be determined in the event of a disruption. We were able to win a DB Regio challenge.
Inspired by the websockets broadcast feature we built a subscription multiplexer for redis subscriptions to subscribe to Redis channels and patterns once for all relevant clients.
We want to update five year old dependencies the trafimage-maps project. But it appears one project dependency is deprecated. What should we do? Fix the project or use something else? We decided to fix the project and give back to the community.
On September 21, 2023, our backend developer Tobias made his way to Rapperswil to attend the Swiss Python Summit 2023.
geOps receives the MobilSiegel as award for sustainable operational mobility.
On 11th September 2023 members from the geOps frontend team set out to Berlin to attend a very interesting and extraordinary event: beyond tellerrand conference.
Discuss the future of local transport from 04-09 September at STATION Berlin.
A city trip to Venice or an important business meeting in Berlin? That can be reached comfortably and in an environmentally friendly way by train. There are direct day and night connections to European cities from various Swiss stations. Our "Direct connections to Europe" map for SBB illustrates this in a visually appealing way with a route network map.
We have recognized the increasing threat posed by the climate crisis. One of the measures we have taken offers our employees a bonus for environmentally friendly private travel.
At geOps, ecological sustainability manifests itself in our daily actions and in the projects we work on. In this blog post, we summarize various aspects of sustainable action.
Jaspersoft wird als Reportingtool in unseren Anwendungen eingesetzt.
Members from the geOps developer team explore GraphQL in an internal hackathon to discover its potential for geOps projects.
The map of the areas of validity of Generalabo, Half-Fare Card and other Swiss public transport season tickets is now available as a true digital version. The map, which was previously maintained manually and produced as a PDF or printed folding map, has been replaced by an automatically generated, dynamic web map.
The Python interpreter handles types in a dynamic and flexible way without constraints on what type of object a variable is assigned to. Since Python 3.5 programmers have the option to add type annotations to their code. Here we how it's done.
We have rewritten our frontend unit tests from using enzyme to testing-library/react. This article provides a quick overview of the updates.
mapset 2.0 has been widely refactored using the open-source react component library MUI (Material-UI).
We have two vacancies for Fullstack or Backend Developers for our offices in Freiburg and Olten. If you want to bring your passion to a strong team, then you should apply.
The IT-TRANS takes place again - and we are there!
News about our products and projects as well as upcoming events.
Automatically generate a Nginx routing configuration for static Next.js projects.
Not only are the trees growing steadily, but our Tree app has also received numerous new functions in the past year. We would like to present a selection here.
Several geOps applications have functions for exporting high-resolution maps as raster images. We explain how to calculate the maximum size of the canvas and thus the resolution and size for printouts.
Der neue Newsletter berichtet über den Einsatz von mapset auf digitalen Stelen und stellt spannende Funktionen in Videos vor.
This post is about how to set up a Django project to only allow CORS requests in DEBUG mode, even if they require a login to the backend. In our case, this has been useful to test frontend customizations on the internal dev environment without having to start the backend locally.
With the tariff association map, we provide information on the location and networking of the public transport tariff communities in Switzerland. Read here about the contents of the map and the "making of".
With our online tool Cartaro, spatial information can be conveniently managed and published in a web map at the push of a button.
Get the list of URLs that complement our printed brochure from July 2021.
mapset hat sich auch in den letzten Monaten stetig weiterentwickelt. Es sind zunehmend die kleinen Verbesserungen, die die Arbeit mit mapset noch schneller und praktischer machen.
Nowhere in Europe is there more traffic on two tracks: With around 1,000 trains a day, the Munich S-Bahn main line has the highest traffic volume traffic volume and is thus operating at its capacity limit.
Wir stellen zwei neue Funktionen vor: das Speichern von Plänen unter einem frei wählbaren Titel und die Integration unseres Routings zum schnellen Zeichnen von Wegen.
In 2020, we again supported the aid workers of Médecins Sans Frontières in their important work.
What User Testing has to do with your new stove, we explain here.
This blog post outlines the current setup of pre-commit hooks, static code analysis tools (Flake8, Black) and dependency management (setuptools, pip-tools) for Python projects at geOps.
From November 27 to 29, 2020, a handful of our employees participated in the MobiData BW Hackathon.
The number of our customers for Altlast4Web software continues to grow. In August 2020, we will welcome the canton of Lucerne as a further customer in productive in productive operation. The changeover took place in the first half of 2020 at a record record speed.
Forest management is characterized by long-term decisions that usually affect the next generations. In times of climate change, it is becoming increasingly important to make the right decisions for the future of forests.
Calculating realistic elevation profiles along routes is not as easy simple as it seems at first glance. We explain how our routing service solves the problem.
mapset is constantly being developed further. We give an overview about the newest functions.
Today we will talk about Cypress. More specifically, how to test Canvas exports in an End-To-End (E2E) testing scenario and how to integrate the tests into your CI.
The satisfaction of our customers and of the entire geOps team is very very close to our hearts. In order to meet customer requirements with high-quality products customer requirements with high quality products and at the same time not to lose overview of many projects, we at geOps use different methods of agile project agile project management and combine them dynamically with each other.
Im Zeitraum März bis Juli 2020 war ich Teil des geOps Teams in Freiburg, machte großartige Erfahrungen und nahm an interessanten Projekten teil. Hier gebe ich Einblicke in diese Zeit.
Who could have guessed at our workshop in December of last year what awaits us in 2020. Despite the turbulence caused by Corona, we have the end of the first half of 2020 as an opportunity to hold our half-year workshop on 09.07.2020 in the workshop in the Lokhalle on the freight yard in Freiburg. to be held.
Wir berichten über neue Kunden von mapset und stellen einige neue Funktionen vor.
Two teams, a mountain trip at an altitude of 1,284 meters and solving the mysterious riddles of the outdoor escape game 2080 - Linus: The water is coming! as well as a lot of fun were on the agenda of our company outing on 03.07.2020.
Since September 2019, we welcome Elias as a permanent graphic designer and UX specialist at geOps!
geOps develops for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in the context of the the Interactive Railway Station Plan (IABP) as part of the Trafimage mandate. This helps as as a stand-alone application or as an integrated map on sbb.ch to help SBB customers with orientation in and around the station.
Transportunternehmen erstellen mit mapset auf einfache Weise grafisch hochstehende Pläne, die auf den attraktiven Karten der SBB basieren. Mit mapset lassen sich Haltestellen lokalisieren, Baustellen und Bahnersatz erklären oder Events im Bahnhofsumfeld darstellen. mapset hilft, die Kundeninformation und Kundenführung entscheidend zu verbessern.
Get to know our digital solutions for mobility and public transport at IT-TRANS.
Towns and regions in the Alpine region have set themselves targets to reduce their CO² emissions and have developed corresponding strategies to promote the circular economy in the fields of energy, mobility, construction, etc. have been developed.
We wish you a peaceful, reflective Advent season and relaxing holidays!
Daniel joined our team in May 2019 and is responsible for developing and improving front-end applications.
Our team continues to grow... We are pleased to welcome Dr. Alexander Held as a new team member.
In 2019, we supported the aid workers of Médecins Sans Frontières in their important work. work.
Auch in diesem Jahr fand Anfang Dezember unser jährlicher Mitarbeiter-Workshop statt. Dieses Mal verschlug es uns in den Kreativpark Lokhalle Freiburg – eine inspirierende Location und die perfekte Basis für einen kreativen Austausch innerhalb des geOps-Teams.
INTERLIS is a powerful tool for the standardized description and description and exchange of geodata. Despite the wide INTERLIS and the anchoring in ordinances (GeoIV-swisstopo) there are still there are still gaps in the software tools that support INTERLIS. support. The ilivalidator, which was released in 2016 as open source software for the validation of INTERLIS data, has closed one of these gaps. closed.
Like the OpenLayers map library, the OpenLayers editor was rewritten from scratch some time ago and published on Github. The goal is still to provide a toolbox for editing spatial data. The focus is on easy integration of the tools into existing map applications as well as user-friendliness in operation.
For the Livemap of the S-Bahn Munich, we show users in real time the positions and current forecasts for trains. This blog entry is about how we have technically implemented two aspects, real-time and scalability. implemented.
On July 27 and 28, 2018, the Community Summercamp of the DB mindbox took place in Berlin. Milan Oberkirch and Mario Härtwig from geOps were there.
Olivier Terral verstärkt als Frontend Entwickler unser Team in Freiburg.
geOps on a company trip in Basel: from the air, on the water and on land
IT-Trans is the leading conference for intelligent urban transport systems and public transit solutions. geOps will be present in Karlsruhe 6 - 8 March 2018.
Our team already includes a number of climbers and boulderers. Apparently, these sports and programming go well together. Therefore we are looking for more of them! Who can help us successfully to find a Linux administrator and JavaScript/Python developer, will receive a one year subscription for the bouldering hall Blockhaus in Freiburg as a thank you.
Augmented reality and virtual reality are among the most important trends of information technology. Our colleague Friedjoff Trautwein attended the Digility Hackathon and promptly took first prize with his team.
geops.ch affected by DNS hijacking incident at Gandi, bei dem die Nameserver von insgesamt 751 Domains ausgetauscht wurden.
In the real world, more and more access points are being designed to be barrier-free. But what about the digital environment? Especially in the area of digital maps and plans, which per se require graphic elements for accessing information. accessibility is a major challenge, especially in the area of digital maps and plans. great challenge.
geOps is partner of Médecins Sans Frontières
A mix of greenhorns and experienced bikers learn in a crash course on how to do more than ride a bike.
The geOps team on a company trip to Zurich. On the hottest day of the day of the summer we made our company trip. The Orga-Team had chosen Zurich HB and Zurich West as destinations for this year.
Since TRAVIC was launched 2 years ago, we have been regularly receiving from users who are familiar with the network and who have noticed deviations routes that deviate from reality. Why do routes deviate from reality? And how can I help to improve the routing?
Automatically and manually recorded routes of public transport - a comparison with data from the SBB and the ZVV.
SBB is currently equipping 16 important stations with new general displays. displays. In addition to the familiar departure display, these also include a new type of display for the event of a malfunction. geOps was responsible for the development of this module. responsible.
Our colleague Patrick Brosi writes not only super software but from time to time also a thriller.
The creation of timetable-referenced routes for public transport is demanding and is usually, if at all, done by hand. We use a route-finding based approach to correlate timetable trajectories and (possibly generalized) geodata.
A few months ago the worldwide public transit tracker developed by geOps and the University of Freiburg, TRAVIC, went online. To get exact vehicle routes we use an approach that generates shapes via iterative shortest-path calculation on the public transit network.
In the context of the Trafimage geoportal of the swiss railway company SBB geOps was given the task to visualize events and activities along the train tracks. These include planned, ongoing and finished construction work, maintenance tasks and information on equipment along the tracks.
We provide regulary updated GTFS feeds from the official schedule data of Switzerland.
At the GEOSummit on 2014 June 4 and 5, we will offer, in addition to the general presentations and demos of our services. Here you will find the program.
geOps has implemented a tracker of worldwide public transportation data. The application combines static and realtime schedule data and calculates the current position of the transport vehicles.
The GEOSummit is the most important event on GIS in Switzerland. geOps will be present in Bern from June 4-5.
Am 6. Mai trifft sich die Schweizer GIS-Szene wieder auf ein GeoBeer. Wir freuen uns, das Event als Sponsor und Local Organizer zu unterstützen.
In recent years, geOps has increasingly implemented projects for the public transport and built up the corresponding competencies. With Patrick Brosi, a proven expert for mapping traffic data and multimodal routing analyses joins our team.
This year Cartaro will participate in the Google Summer of Code. This means that interested and talented students may apply for a stipend from Google that allows them to develop new functionalities for Cartaro. Apply until March 21 and get the chance to contribute your piece of open source code to Cartaro.
At the beginning of 2014, geOps AG was founded in Switzerland. With this step, we offer our Swiss and Liechtenstein customers easier access to our services and shorten the paths for optimized support.
As one of the first countries in the world, Switzerland today publishes a cadastre of public-law property restrictions. A topic in the cadastre is processed and published with software from geOps.
We are excited to announce the first release of batyr - a server which connects all kinds of vector geodata sources to a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database and provides a structured way to synchronize external data to database tables.
The Swiss railway association SBB have published a new map on their website that eases access to information about services and shopping opportunities at all railway stations.
Be invited to participate in the interdisciplinary scientific workshop “Sharing Geospatial Data - the key to successful interdisciplinary and international collaboration” to be held in Bern, October 31th – November 2nd, 2013.
We are looking for qualified talents (m/f) to shape the Geospatial Web with us.
GeoServer is one main component for Cartaro and various customer projects. Therefore we wanted to know under which conditions GeoServer delivers the best WFS (Web Feature Service) performance.
We are happy to announce that Cartaro is part of the OSGeo-Live DVD now. This gives everybody the chance to try out Cartaro locally without hazzling with the installation.
Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz ist die wichtigste Veranstaltung zu freier und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme im deutschsprachigen Raum. Bei der diesjährigen Konferenz im Juni in Rapperswil ist geOps als Sponsor und Ausssteller beteiligt.
Starting with the Dufour map and ending with the most current maps of Switzerland the development of cartography as well as changes in our surroundings can be visualized and animated.
To make it easier for you to plan your winter vacation, we have created in 2D and 3D.
The trade publication Aqua & Gas of the Swiss Association of Gas and water industry reports in its current issue about our software Altlast4Web.
The OpenLayers Editor OLE now also supports the WFS-T protocol for Geodata processing
When editing vector features in a web GIS map one often needs support for precise drawing. Snapping to existing features of external data (using WFS or other vector features) was long available in OpenLayers Editor but it still lacked guide line support. We are pleased to announce that guide lines can now be generated automatically by OpenLayers Editor whilst a feature is drawn. Guide lines for the first run offer support for drawing right angled features or features in parallel to other features.
Nächste Woche, vom 4. bis 6. Juli, findet die AGIT in Salzburg statt.
The GEOSummit is the most important event on GIS in Switzerland. geOps will be at the trade fair and conference from June 19-21.
As of today, swisstopo has made available a new version of the application for a new version of the revision service optimized for mobile devices.
geOps celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. On this occasion we invite June 28/29, 2012 customers, partners, interested parties and friends in our new offices in the Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 263.
For processing linear geometries it may be necessary to split them.
Last weekend, the second Open Data Camp took place simultaneously in Zurich and Geneva. Open Data Camp took place in Zurich and Geneva. The aim was to use open data to improve mobility. mobility.
A presentation at GEOSummit 2012 in Bern is dedicated to the Altlast4Web software developed by geOps.
Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz ist die wichtigste Veranstaltung zu freier und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme im deutschsprachigen Raum. Wie schon in den vergangenen Jahren ist geOps als Sponsor beteiligt.
The geOps team wishes a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all customers, partners and friends.
This article will show how to use OLE to provide feature editing and feature creation within MapFish. It does not rely on ExtJS and GeoExt that are often associated with MapFish. The result of the tutorial can be seen here.
geOps releases the source code of OpenLayers Editor under a FreeBSD license. OpenLayers Editor offers a toolbar for precise and efficient editing of geodata in the browser.
Visit us from 27.9.-29.9. at the Intergeo in Nuremberg, Germany, the largest trade fair on the subject of GIS.
Since June 2011, the Environment Section at the Swiss Federal Office of Transport (BAV) has been the first customer to productively use the current version 2 of Altlast4Web. productively.
Our presentation from this year's AGI with the topic Geodata for the control of complex and long-term long-term business processes Example Contaminated site enforcement in Switzerland
geOps is present at this year's AGIT in Salzburg with a contribution on the topic of topic "Geodata for the control of complex and long-term business processes". will be presented. Using the example of contaminated site enforcement in Switzerland and the software software Altlast4Web, we present how closely the interaction of geodata and business processes can be in a modern web application.
geOps shows with a video that all functions are also available in the browser to be able to digitize geodata precisely and efficiently.
At the FOSSGIS conference in Heidelberg we presented our solution approach for printing reports with map data based on OpenOffice. The presentation is available online.
Eine unserer Applikationen verwendet eine Wiki-Installation um Hilfetexte kontextsensitiv darzustellen. Die Texte liegen in Form von Artikeln in MediaWiki vor – die gleiche Technik wie sie Wikipedia verwendet. Durch die Entwicklung unserer Applikation als Software-Produktlinie bot es sich an beim Verfassen von Hilfetexten ähnlich zu verfahren. Ein Fallback erlaubt es nun mit einer einzigen Wiki-Installation spezifische Hilfetexte für Kunden mehrsprachig auszuliefern. Grundlage ist eine Sammlung von allgemeingültigen Hilfetexten, die im Bedarfsfall für die Kunden angepasst und übersetzt werden können. Alle Kunden können so direkt von verbesserter Dokumentation profitieren und gleichzeitig individuelle Inhalte integrieren. Die Inhalte der Hilfe können dabei vom Kunden einfach und flexibel im bewährten MediaWiki angepasst werden."
geOps releases flexible jQuery plugin for context-sensitive help in web applications.
Version 3 of the Google Maps API allows the application of custom style definitions for individual map layers. Some tests with the new API within OpenLayers showed that Google Maps presents forests with much more with much more detail than Google Maps would suggest at first glance. at first glance.
As part of a project, there was a requirement for customers to be able to freely edit the translations of the program interface. Here the the previous implementation of the translations using GNU gettext in the application reached its limits. An adapter for the Zend Framework now implements the necessary flexibility.
Die FOSSGIS-Konferenz ist die wichtigste Veranstaltung zu freier und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme im deutschsprachigen Raum. Wie schon in den vergangenen Jahren ist geOps als Sponsor beteiligt.
sogeko ist eine flexible Geschäftskontrolle, mit der sich beliebige Arbeitsabläufe definieren lassen, und die einfach in bestehende Systeme eingebunden werden kann.
Auf der FOSS4G werden wieder aktuelle Trends im Open Source GIS-Bereich und Anwendungen in der Praxis präsentiert. Viele Entwickler der wichtigsten Softwareprodukte sind auf der Konferenz vertreten und garantieren so für Informationen aus erster Hand.
Auf der FOSS4G werden wieder aktuelle Trends im Open Source GIS-Bereich und Anwendungen in der Praxis präsentiert. Viele Entwickler der wichtigsten Softwareprodukte sind auf der Konferenz vertreten und garantieren so für Informationen aus erster Hand.
The FOSSGIS conference is the most important event on free and open source software for geoinformation systems in the German-speaking world. As in previous years, geOps is involved as a sponsor.
From 22.9.2009-24.9.2009 the Intergeo will take place in Karlsruhe, the largest trade fair on the subject of GIS.
In the geops-postgresql-utils project hosted on GoogleCode, geOps provides tools and functions for the free database server PostgreSQL.
FOSSGIS ist die Abkürzung für Freie und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme und ist die führende Konferenz zu diesem Thema im deutschsprachigen Raum. Wie schon im vergangenen Jahr ist geOps als Sponsor beteiligt.
geOps has been a member of the Freiburg media forum mff since July, emphasizing its commitment to staying up to date on media and IT security issues in the regional environment as well.
VEGAS is a web-based information system in the field of hydrogeology, which was developed on behalf of the Office for the Environment in the was developed. To demonstrate the comprehensive functionality, an installation an installation on the internet.
Google has introduced a web application called Google Map Maker, with which anyone (i.e. every registered Google user) can create and edit geographic features - in the style of a wiki. What at first interesting at first glance, is, however, to be viewed extremely critically under consideration of the license conditions.
FOSSGIS ist die Abkürzung für Freie und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme und ist die führende Konferenz zu diesem Thema im deutschsprachigen Raum. geOps beteiligt sich als Sponsor daran.
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