Company
Since 1994 we have made maps that arrive.
Localion is the brand of LOGIBALL GmbH: founded as a Fraunhofer spin-off, grown with every wave of navigation innovation, today a specialist for mission-critical routing.
The story
From spin-off to specialist.
Founded in Herne
As a Fraunhofer institute spin-off, the founders transferred logistics thinking from the factory floor to the traffic outside.
Map craft
LOGIBALL became a specialist for map data, Mapfusion and quality assurance, as a partner of the major map makers.
Own products
Projects became products: the Business Navigator, special maps for forestry and emergency services, cloud services.
Baton passed within the team
Co-founder Dr Roger Müller handed management to Bodo von Unruh and Markus Hoyer. The course remains: mission-critical routing, made in Germany.
Localion in numbers
Continuity is a feature.
A small company with long customer relationships: some we have accompanied for over 20 years.
From LOGIBALL to Localion
One name, one chain.
You may know us under an earlier name. It all connects:
LOGIBALL GmbH
The legal entity since 1994. It still appears in contracts, imprint and invoices.
LOGIBALL Business Navigator
The origin of the navigation products. The LOGIBALL Business Navigator became the Localion Navigator.
Localion
The product and public brand for everything you see here: map, navigator, cloud, IQ.
Press
Localion is the LOGIBALL GmbH brand for mission-critical routing and navigation beyond the standard road network. Founded in 1994 as a Fraunhofer spin-off, the company from Herne, Germany, develops the Germany Plus Map with over 1m km of official extra ways, the offline navigation app Localion Navigator and the geo-service platform Localion Cloud. Users include forestry operations, emergency services and public authorities, utilities and field-service organisations.
| Founded | 1994, as a Fraunhofer spin-off |
|---|---|
| Legal entity | LOGIBALL GmbH, Westring 303, 44629 Herne, Germany |
| Locations | Herne (headquarters) and Berlin |
| Management | Bodo von Unruh and Markus Hoyer |
| Brand | Localion · claim “Gets you there” |
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Localion is best understood in a 30-minute conversation, not in corporate prose.
