The economically dynamic district of Ahrweiler has an innovative character with a global orientation. Business, science and quality of life form a symbiosis and qualify the AW district as an attractive location with established expertise and healthy growth.

The Ahrweiler district economic development agency is an active companion here. One of the most important instruments of district economic development is building permit management and the service point for funding programs: For business start-ups, expansions, innovations or measures to improve the environment, the district economic development department establishes contact with relevant funding institutions and supports the respective project.

As a dynamic service provider for the economy of the district of Ahrweiler, the Economic Development Agency is at your disposal with help and advice.

The Office for Land Management and Geoinformation secures land ownership by maintaining the real estate cadastre and provides information from it. It carries out surveys and creates geodetic spatial references. An IT infrastructure for geoinformation provides considerable support for the spatial work processes of the administration and citizen information. The office is also responsible for the reallocation of land for the purpose of development and the official and municipal valuation of land.

CISS TDI GmbH is a technology company specializing in the acquisition, integration and provision of geodata. With our passion for geodata, we have been developing concepts and tools for the optimal use of global geoinformation since 1982.

Our aim is to make the world's geoinformation usable for you. The core areas are geodata acquisition, processing, platforms and research.

Via the store (store.ciss.de (opens in a new tab)) you can order or convert real estate data, orthophotos or topographic maps in the formats DXF or Shape. CISS TDI will also be happy to advise you on the procurement of additional data.

If you would like to make your own geodata available, the company will create a convenient provision portal for you.

The EUROSENSE Group is one of Europe's leading providers in the fields of remote sensing, aerial photography, photogrammetry, digital cartography and environmental exploration. Several company-owned aircraft are available for image and sensor flights. The equipment with up to three sensor apertures enables the simultaneous use of several recording systems.

In addition to image flights with digital camera systems (Vexcel UltraCam Eagle and others), the company also takes precise landscape images to create high-quality surface and terrain models with the powerful Riegl 1560II full waveform laser scanning system.

In addition to digital camera systems of the Vexcel UltraCam type, the LiteMapper 6800 full waveform laser scanning system enables precise landscape images to be taken to create high-quality surface and terrain models.

EUROSENSE has a modern thermal imaging camera for large-area recording of thermal infrared radiation with high resolution. Thermographic images from the air are increasingly being used to detect heat loss in buildings and district heating networks.

EUROSENSE is also active in the processing and interpretation of satellite data.

Hexagon is a leading global provider of sensors, software and autonomous solutions. The company harnesses data to increase efficiency, productivity and quality in the fields of industry, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety and mobility. These technologies are shaping urban and productive ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous for a scalable and sustainable future.

Hexagon's Geospatial Division develops solutions for the visualization of spatial information. From desktop to cloud to mobile applications, it bridges the gap between the geospatial and operational worlds. Hexagon's Bonn office is primarily dedicated to geographic information systems and web applications in public administration and defense/ intelligence.

For more information, please visit  www.hexagongeospatial.com. (opens in a new tab)

ibR Geoinformation GmbH, a medium-sized software company based in Bonn, specializes in geo-information systems for cadastre and surveying, rural reorganization and municipalities. ibR designs and develops the DAVID product family with software solutions for the DAVID geo-information system.

The DAVID product family from ibR ranges from the DAVID-GeoDB and the DAVID-GeoServices (WMS / WFS) to the DAVID-Expert workstation with the DAVID-Fachschalen, DAVID-Homogenization and the DAVID-Vermessungspaket VPR, the DAVID-Feldsystem up to the DAVID-GeoAuskunft and DAVID-WebAuskunft with the DAVID-BuchAuskunft.

As one of the leading GIS providers for public administration in Germany, ibR offers comprehensive customer service, professional solution competence and a versatile range of services. The many years of ibR projects and the broad customer base for AFIS, ALKIS and ATKIS are a clear endorsement of ibR's innovative product line.

infas 360 offers the complete value chain of modern data science for business and science through the use and utilization of all publicly and privately available data. The company is made up of a unique interdisciplinary team of experts in the fields of market research, statistics, social sciences, geoinformatics, economics and business administration.

The data specialists have many years of experience in the procurement and evaluation of official and commercial data, in empirical market research, the handling of large amounts of data and the application of complex analysis methods for data structuring, compression and evaluation. infas 360 is a leader in the determination of regional indicators using modern small area methods such as the calculation of product-specific purchasing power or dynamically changing home office use, through to daily updated, address-specific databases consisting of all buildings, their inhabitants and household structures or commercial information such as all commercial register data, founders (start-ups) and partnerships.

In addition, infas 360, as part of the listed infas Holding AG, provides customized, user-specific platform solutions from a single source via its sister company infas LT.

For more than 40 years, infas LT has been one of the market leaders in the fields of geomarketing and business mapping - i.e. the detailed analysis and cartographic representation of economic, political or social phenomena on digital maps. Even under the company name Lutum+Tappert GmbH, infas LT has been setting an important standard in the market for business mapping software solutions with easymap for several decades and is constantly developing it further.

With easymap and the comprehensive international market data portfolio, the distribution of customers and potentials at any location in any market and sales area can be precisely analysed, forecast and visualized. This is the basis for correct decisions and efficient sales and marketing management.

In addition to the standard product easymap, infas LT develops individual platform, dashboard and data visualization systems on behalf of customers. infas LT is a company of infas Holding. Thanks to its proximity to its sister company infas 360, one of Germany's specialists for data science, infas LT customers also benefit from excellent data expertise, which is reflected in access to up-to-date, comprehensive macro- and micro-geographical databases. Together, infas LT as a software specialist and infas 360 as a data specialist have developed remarkable projects.

interactive instruments is an owner-managed company based in Bonn and founded in 1985. Our business area is consulting and realization projects with spatial information - with a focus on innovative solutions based on international standards, in whose development we are also actively involved. We are particularly interested in open, web-based architectures, such as those developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

The focus is on the modeling of geographic information, model-based software development, architectures of geodata infrastructures, geodata services and the quality assurance of geodata and geodata services.

lat/lon has been active as a consulting and software company in Bonn since 2000. The company combines the core business areas of geodata infrastructure and geo-IT standards in a business model based on open source software.

Since its foundation, lat/lon has been an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), today as a so-called Technical Member, and is involved in the area of reference implementations and conformance tests. lat/lon is largely responsible for the development of the deegree project, an open source project for the implementation of OGC and ISO geographic data standards.

The company mundialis GmbH & Co KG was founded in May 2015 as a research and development company. It covers the full range of remote sensing data acquisition, geodata processing and process optimization, and in particular offers interfaces for the processing of voluminous spatial and remote sensing data. The company focuses on the requirements of its customers and offers solutions tailored to their specific needs.

Mundialialis offers in-depth knowledge of processing and analyzing remote sensing data as well as services and products with  open source geoinformation systems (opens in a new tab). Based on this, the company develops innovative solutions that often interact with other systems. Mundialis is experienced in building WebGIS and geoportal architectures with free and open source software.

Mundialis is managed by highly experienced personalities in the field of remote sensing and the geospatial world.

• Market and geodata
• Geoinformation systems
• Store, location and expansion planning
• Address management / geocoding
• Customer and target group segmentation
• Sales and field service optimization
• CRM / Business Intelligence solutions

As a leading provider of location intelligence and geomarketing, Nexiga supports companies in the planning and evaluation of sales and service areas, locations and branches as well as in the segmentation and profiling of customers and target groups. On the basis of spatial systematization using geo and market data, Nexiga provides comprehensive market transparency and uncovers relevant market potential. CRM systems can also be usefully supplemented with geo and market information.

Precise data, intelligent analyses and tailor-made software-as-a-service solutions offer extensive knowledge for differentiated marketing and sales strategies.

Since the beginning of 2020, Nexiga has been part of the  GUS Group (opens in a new tab), a leading provider of integrated software solutions for the process industry and logistics.

terrestris focuses on the processing and presentation of spatial data using geographic information systems (GIS) in all their forms. The company focuses on the requirements of its customers and offers solutions tailored to their specific needs. These are based on proven and widely used open source technologies. Building on this, terrestris develops innovative solutions that often interact with other systems.

The company is well networked both nationally and internationally and is quick to adapt the latest technologies and software versions. Thanks to the high level of expertise of its employees and a lively corporate culture, Terrestris follows its own claim to only use technology that is completely convincing. Together with partner companies, operational security can be offered in the form of maintenance and support for certain open source products.

This framework allows us to develop and offer unbiased solutions that actually satisfy all customer requirements. According to the company, this is also the basis for fair and transparent customer relations.

In terms of content, the focus is on the design and development of geodata infrastructures, web mapping applications and services based on OpenStreetMap. Terrestris develops customized applications that can be used intuitively on all platforms.

The Society for Environmental Planning and Scientific Consulting has been in existence since 1998. As an interdisciplinary team from the fields of geography, biology and agricultural science, its work focuses on

• the collection of ecological data,
• environmental, landscape and regional planning,
• implementation planning,
• tourism (hiking trail planning, tourist guidance systems, information boards, maps),
• thematic cartography.

Geographical information systems such as QGIS, ArcGIS and GISPAD are used. Thanks to its many years of experience and predominantly regional activities in southern North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Rhineland-Palatinate, the company is well networked. Personal contact with customers is important to the company and the continuity of the workforce ensures long-term support for projects.

The VertiGIS Group is a leading solution provider and software developer in the field of GIS-based information and specialist systems. Its activities focus on the development of software solutions and services that help customers in the utilities, land management, government, energy, telecommunications and industrial market segments to build bridges between the processes of their sectors and geospatial technologies. Thousands of customers and millions of end users around the world utilize the VertiGIS product portfolio, which was developed to extend the capabilities of leading GIS solutions, particularly Esri's ArcGIS®. Key product brands include UT for ArcGIS®, the 3A product line, Geocortex®, GEONIS, ConnectMaster™, M4® Solutions, GeoOffice, WebOffice and ProOffice.

Further information at  www.vertigis.com (opens in a new tab)

WhereGroup is a dynamic medium-sized software company for geoinformation systems. The company develops open source solutions with a spatial focus and is deeply rooted in the open source community. Its customers include companies from a wide range of sectors as well as larger public authorities and municipalities.

WhereGroup supports all phases of GIS and database projects, from as-is analysis, planning and software development to productive operation. The range of services includes geoinformation systems for large companies, individual WebGIS solutions, customized OpenStreetMap maps, mobile applications and municipal geoportals.

The in-house training institute, the FOSS Academy, also offers practice-oriented training courses for individuals and companies on the subject of "GIS with open source software".