Open models for spatial policy.
We build transparent spatial models and the software they run on, so governments, planning agencies, policy advisers and researchers can understand how land, people and infrastructure develop, explore what a policy choice would change, and decide on better evidence.
We make generic software and the models that run on it. GeoDMS is our open-source modelling environment, developed since the 1990s, and we build the web viewers that make what a model computes usable by the people who have to act on it. On that same software we develop models for several policy domains, which we apply ourselves or hand over for clients to apply. Building a model and using one both happen in projects.
We work in the open and document how a result came about, because its value lies not only in the answer but in being able to follow the reasoning behind it. Our vision sets out why we think that matters.
That principle runs through our projects. At present much of our work centres on CRISP and the RuimteScanner. CRISP produced the spatial projections behind the United Nations' World Urbanization Prospects 2025; the RuimteScanner has supported Dutch national planning since 1997.