Wooded ridges of the Black Forest in layers, each one paler than the last as morning mist fills the valleys between them.

Am Staufenberg

We make things for people who walk, and we take on geospatial work for people who think in maps.

Apps

We build apps for hiking and the outdoors. Each one carries its own name and lives on its own domain, so this site is the company behind them rather than the place you use them.

The first is TrailLogger, an app for planning a walk and keeping a record of it afterward. It is early, and you can follow it at traillogger.com.

A track running down through vineyards into the Rench valley in evening light, with the town of Oberkirch below and Black Forest ridges behind it.
A track down into the Rench valley, in the northern Black Forest.

Books

We are planning a few small print-on-demand books for walkers. The first could be a fill-in travelogue booklet: blank pages laid out so that a hike leaves behind something written by hand rather than a file on a phone. A second might be a book about our own walks.

Nothing is in print yet, and we would rather promise too little than too much. Stay tuned, and we will say so here once there is something to order.

A wide view over the vineyards around Durbach, with a small stone hut in the foreground and two walkers on the track beside it.
The vineyard tracks above Durbach, in the northern Black Forest.

Geospatial consulting

We take on project work for organizations that hold location data and need to know what it is telling them. What we hand back is a finding rather than a folder of outputs: what the data shows, how far it can be trusted, and what follows from it for the decision in front of you.

We can take a project from one end to the other: finding and gathering the data, cleaning and transforming it, running the analysis, and building whatever the result needs to live in, whether that is a report, an interactive map, or a website. Typical work: GPX and track processing, web mapping, spatial data pipelines, statistical modeling, and terrain and route analysis.

We bring 10+ years of professional experience across geospatial work and data science.

A hand-drawn topographic plan of the Amt Staufenberg from 1785, showing hachured hills, vineyards, streams, and named hamlets inside a red district boundary.
The Amt Staufenberg, surveyed in 1785. Terrain and route analysis is an old trade.

Why Staufenberg?

Am Staufenberg is German for at the Staufenberg, a hill above Durbach in the Black Forest where part of our family has its roots, and the company is named after it. Another branch of the family comes from Mediasch in Transylvania, hill country of its own. The walking started in the hills of Hungary, where we grew up.

Stauf is an old German word for a footless beaker, the kind of cup that can only be set down upside down, and the word was carried over early to hills of that shape. Whether this Staufenberg was named for its shape or simply for being steep, we cannot say.

The village of Durbach in its valley, framed by vine rows in the foreground, with Schloss Staufenberg standing on the rounded hill behind it.
Durbach, with Schloss Staufenberg on the hill behind it.
A black and white panorama of Mediasch in Transylvania photographed in 1926, looking across tiled roofs to a church tower and low hills beyond.
Mediasch in Transylvania, photographed in 1926.

Contact

If you have a project in mind, write to hello@amstaufenberg.eu with a short description of what you need and the timeline you are working to.