News on Open Location Stack

Indoor maps need to grow up

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Most companies that use indoor maps still treat them as an afterthought. They’ll buy an expensive location system, for example based on ultra-wideband, and spend a lot of money installing the necessary infrastructure and dialing that in. But the maps that go with this system do not get much attention from a practical or aesthetic point of view. Most people base their maps on architectural drawings. The dominant aesthetic is that of a technical drawing. Quite often these come in bitmap form. You can see this clearly when zooming in. The edges get all pixelated and the text labels become blurry.

Open Location Hub 0.1.0 is out

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:06:00 +0000

Open Location Hub 0.1.0 is now published.

This is the first public release of Open Location Hub. Our goal with this release is to offer a full implementation of the current API surface and solicit feedback that helps define what the eventual 1.0 release should look like.

What is in 0.1.0

For the initial 0.1 scope, Open Location Hub now implements the full omlox API surface planned for this release.

Benchmarking Open Location Hub with OpenSky and replayed traffic

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

We wanted a benchmark built from real traffic, easy to rerun locally, and good at showing where Open Location Hub starts to drop work.

Intro: OpenSky and the benchmark input

OpenSky Network publishes live aircraft state data from a community-operated sensor network. For this benchmark we used the Germany preset, captured about five minutes of traffic, and stored the raw location_updates stream as NDJSON.

The input is both realistic and repeatable. We start from a real capture and replay the same file against the hub whenever we change the runtime.

Easter Update: soft launch, public repositories, and rapid hub progress

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Open Location Stack has moved from a private build effort to something partners can inspect, test, and challenge directly.

At LogiMAT in Stuttgart, we soft-launched the Open Location Stack website. The goal was simple: show the work to RTLS partners early, while the architecture is already credible and still open to feedback.

At the same time, we made our first two GitHub repositories public:

Open Location Hub on GitHub, which is the integration backbone of the stack and the first component we expect many partners to evaluate seriously.
Floor Plan Editor on GitHub, which gives the stack an open indoor mapping foundation for creating and maintaining structured venue data.

That order matters. For many teams, the hub is where the value becomes concrete. It can sit between existing RTLS deployments, normalize location flows, and open a path toward mixed-vendor interoperability without forcing a rip-and-replace project.