Your geodata does not go out of date on the day of the migration. It goes out of date every day after that.
We take on the ongoing geodata management for infrastructure operators: preparing and standardising planning data, maintaining asset data, producing maps and plan sets, integrating orthophotos and aerial imagery. Permanently, at an agreed cadence — so that your GIS team has time again for the things only it can do.
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Does this sound familiar?
- The planning office delivers a DWG with 140 layers and nobody knows which ones are meant. Someone at your organisation sorts it out by hand — every single time.
- The aerial survey has been paid for, the orthophotos sit on a hard drive, and to this day nobody sees them in the GIS.
- The overview map for the approval procedure gets built on a Friday evening, because it has to be submitted on Monday.
- Your GIS team consists of two people. One has been tied up in a project for months, the other keeps the shop running.
- Everyone knows the asset data ought to be updated. It is just that updating is never as urgent as whatever is on fire right now.
This is not a question of discipline. It is a question of capacity: geodata maintenance has no deadline, so it loses every conflict over priorities — until the state of the data becomes a problem in a procedure or an audit.
What you gain from it
- Your GIS team is freed up for what can only be done internally. Technical decisions, coordination with the departments, project work — instead of sorting layers.
- Capacity that breathes with you. When an approval procedure, an aerial survey or a network expansion project creates peaks, they do not land in your holiday planning.
- A data situation that withstands scrutiny. Traceable, documented, with a protocol — even months later.
- Less friction with your suppliers. A clear handover specification and automatic validation take the debate about what “complete” means off your hands.
- Predictable costs. Recurring services at an agreed cadence, peaks charged separately — instead of invisible internal effort that nobody quantifies.
What we take on permanently
Preparing and standardising planning data
We receive whatever your planning offices, surveying offices and contractors deliver — DWG, DXF, shapefiles, PDF plans, point lists, specialist formats — and transfer it into your data model: layer and attribute mapping, coordinate transformation, geometry checks, naming conventions, metadata. Whatever does not fit goes back to the supplier with a comprehensible test report, rather than into your data holdings. Your benefit: One single structure instead of twenty supplier handwritings — and a data quality that does not depend on who happened to deliver.
And if the data should not arise unstructured in the first place: with MoversSurvey, your teams and service providers capture objects and metadata out in the field according to your data model — offline-capable, with mandatory fields, value lists and photo documentation. What arrives that way does not have to be sorted out afterwards.
Maintaining and quality-assuring asset data
Updating after construction work and surveys, topology and plausibility checks, removal of duplicates, attribute completion, upkeep of the history. On a regular cycle, with a protocol, against an agreed rule set. Your benefit: You know at any time how current your data is, and you can rely on that when it matters.
Maps, plan sets and approval documents
Route plans, overview and detail maps, site and asset plans, map series for approval and public participation procedures, plan-accurate labelling and legends to your specifications. We build the templates properly once and then produce reproducibly — not every map as a one-off. Your benefit: A consistent cartographic appearance to the outside world, and output in days rather than weeks, even when it gets urgent.
Orthophotos, aerial imagery and point clouds
Georeferencing, clipping and tiling, building image pyramids, managing the annual series, integration as a service into your GIS and web environment. Also the connection of official aerial imagery and elevation data, and the derivation of point cloud and elevation information for your specialist applications. Your benefit: Your aerial survey becomes a usable layer for everyone instead of a folder that three people know about.
Provision and access
So that the work actually arrives: services for your specialist applications, project templates for the workstations, a web viewer for colleagues without GIS, defined exports for external parties. Your benefit: The data is where decisions are made — not only where it is maintained.
Why this is more than outsourcing
Simply handing over geodata maintenance would mean buying permanent manual labour. We aim for the opposite: every recurring task is first described as a rule, then verified, then automated as far as it pays off. Validation routines, processing pipelines, map templates — these grow over the course of the collaboration and make the effort per delivery smaller rather than larger.
The rule set belongs to you. It is documented and held at your organisation, works with open formats, and can be continued by any other service provider or by your own team. We want to be indispensable because we are good — not because nobody else understands how it works.
How the collaboration starts
We start small and without commitment: a survey of your data and delivery routes, a first processing run on real material, and a rule set derived from it. After that you decide which services move to us permanently, at what cadence and with what response times — we define that together instead of selling you a package that does not fit your operation.
Your point of contact stays the same person. Our team in Vienna is small; whoever knows your data also answers the phone.
Where this experience comes from
We have been operating and maintaining geodata on behalf of others for years. For TransnetBW we developed structured QGIS projects as a binding medium of communication in energy grid approval procedures. For BOKU Vienna we have been responsible since 2026 for updating and running waldbrand.at, the Austrian information platform for wildfire risk. In the Interreg project DIGIWAY we implemented a cross-border geospatial pipeline for the EUREGIO Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino.
Frequently asked questions
Are you replacing our GIS team?
No — and that would be the wrong idea anyway. Your team knows your network, your departments and your special cases; nobody from outside can bring that. We take the recurring production work off their hands so that scarce internal time goes where it is really needed.
Do we have to change our system for this?
No. We work in your environment, with your formats and your specifications. If in the process we notice that something in the system landscape is the real bottleneck, we will tell you — as an observation, not as a sales pitch.
How does the data reach you?
By whatever route already exists at your organisation: access to your database or your data room, an agreed exchange directory, or deliveries from your offices straight to us with validation and forwarding to you. Data protection, access routes and confidentiality are agreed in writing beforehand.
Do you fly the aerial surveys yourselves?
The flight is carried out by specialised partners. We take care of the specification and acceptance of the survey and of everything afterwards: georeferencing, processing, provision and management of the annual series.
Can we start small?
Explicitly yes. A single processing run or one map series is a good first test — for you as much as for us. What becomes permanent is decided afterwards.
How this connects to our other services
This page describes ongoing operations. If a system change is ahead of you, it starts before that: with requirements engineering and migration — and, if you have to procure, with tender and award support. For structured capture out in the field there is MoversSurvey. The services interlock, but each can be commissioned on its own.
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Let's talk about your data routine
Tell us what regularly gets left undone at your organisation and who currently does it on the side. In an initial consultation we will tell you what can sensibly be outsourced — and what is better kept in-house.
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