About
Just Objects B.V. is the trading name for the professional activities of Just van den Broecke.
Just Objects provides services for Geospatial IT, also known as GIS or Geo-ICT, with a focus on Free and Open Source (FOSS), Open Standards and Open Data.
The range of services include: consultancy, training, development, hosting and maintenance. Just Objects provides three commercial cloud services built with Open Source and Open Data:
- map5.nl - online maps, including the award-winning map5topo map
- geotoko.nl - ready-to-use Dutch Open Geospatial datasets
- geoqos.com - monitoring and QoS checking for your (OGC-based) geospatial web services
Just Objects was a member of the OpenGeoGroep Cooperation.
Just is an OSGeo Charter member and founder/former chair of the OSGeo.nl Foundation, the Dutch Local Chapter of OSGeo.org .
He is a regular mapper for OpenStreetMap - OSM and active in the Dutch and Spanish OSM-communities.
The most active part of this website is Just’s Blog , so look there or below for what is new.
- May 27, 2026 - Adiós 2022-2025
- January 4, 2022 - Adiós 2021
- September 13, 2021 - Terraform First Steps
- January 20, 2021 - That Was 2020
- January 17, 2020 - Cheers to 2019
- May 31, 2019 - Second Time Around – WFS v3 and pygeoapi