Moskito Geo-Informations-Systeme GmbH is an established manufacturer of IT-based geographic information systems and located in Dortmund.
The company was founded in 1997 by two computer scientists, Horst Wessel and Hans-Josef Hoebertz. Today it has seven employees.
The team includes graduated computer scientists, mechanical engineers, surveying technicians and spatial planners.
With ingenuity and their ability to think outside the box, they work on ideas and new concepts that exceed the limits of traditional geographic information systems significantly.
Current
Every year, with one of our customers we organize the Moskito User Conference and all our users are invited. In this day, in addition to the presentations of new developments, there is always a supporting program to have exchange of ideas with our customers about future requirements and receive feedback on the quality and quantity of cooperation in the past year.
Currently, we are concentrating on the development of a web-based and offline-capable tree cadastre Moskito"ProBaum" for municipalities. In the near future, we would like to make Moskito more intuitive and improve the user interface. And even offer to our customers more new functions and individual products, which are tailored to their needs specifically. The next development plan is integrating the Moskito GIS with Building Information Management (BIM) in order to link up a large-scale administration and information with buildings.
We regularly take part in the annual Intergeo trade fair, where we will be happy to inform you about our products at our stand, and advise you based on your requirements.
The beginnings of Moskito
The Moskito GIS Company was founded in 1997 by computer scientists Hans Josef Hoebertz and Horst Wessel.

From that time, had already been two years invested into development of the software, which was originally developed as a PC version of the Großrechner-GIS "GRADIS 2000". The system of Strässle company, which Wessel and Hoebertz had been helped to develop, has a development history that goes back to 1970s.
In this way, the new Moskito-System has benefited from many years experience of GRADIS to supply in the user market quickly. Following the closure of Strässle company in 1995, the Moskito GIS has been developed as an independent software regardless of GRADIS and marketed.
At the beginning, the Moskito GIS had been managed and developed solely by Hoebertz and Wessel, who were owners and managing directors equally. After the product was used by customers in the first companies, more developers were hired.
Projects and changes
Moskito company has continued to develop itself over the years and employed up to 15 people in full times. Due to the tragic accidental death of the managing director and owner Hans Josef Hoebertz, have taken place some significant changes in the company in 2007. Some time later, Horst Wessel took over the role of sole management and had to redistribute the tasks within the company.
Moskito was involved in the German-Vietnamese wastewater research project "IWRM". In a long-term cooperation with the German universities in Bonn, Bochum and Greifswald and Vietnamese universities in Can Tho, Da Nang and Hanoi, wastewater management in the Tropics and Subtropics of Vietnam was optimized. In many individual projects, a water quality analysis of the Mekong was carried out and a water treatment system built up in a heavily polluted industrial area.
Due to the language barriers within the project, Moskito and its employees learned a lot about communication management during this time. In addition, the user interface of Moskito had been considerably optimized during this time, so that the project participants with less GIS experience could work more easily with the applications.
Application areas and customers
The Moskito GIS is specially optimized for the field of network operation, and now in the big energy providers as well as in small and large industrial enterprises in operation. Moskito's first customer in 1996 was NTS company in the Münster city, and they have been using the Moskito GIS products today. Other customers are the energy supplier such as Syna and RWE, which operates more than 30 workstations for initial data acquisition and changes in the network at peak times. The RWE now mainly uses Moskito in the power plant area. Moskito is also used by others companies included SMS Meer, Evonik and Eurogate. Our applications are compatible with internal systems and therefore can be integrated into company structures with required security.

Over the past two decades, Moskito has been continuously developed based on the requirements of the user. In the early years, the system was mainly used for the highly optimized digitization of supply networks in the utilities sector. For this purpose, the data was captured in large teams by using digitizing tablets. Since then, Moskito has increasingly switched into a screen application. From that time, on the one hand not only GIS experts wanted to use the program over time, on the other hand tried to provide a simpler interfaces, which helps other users to work easily with the Moskito GIS.
The developers of Moskito always endeavor to assess developments among the users at an early stage and to have products as early as possible under development or finished when our customers need them.
History
1976-1997 GRADIS 2000 to Moskito
- GINA-Emulation
- Moskito as an independent Windows-based GIS
- Information desk
- Start of development of the Ginasim in 1988
1997
Read more...Moskito Version 2
2000-2003
First Moskito demo version
Moskito GIS Webserver
Civil Engineering Information System Tifosy
Street data bank
Application Canal/Sewerage
- Power circuit coloring
- Trassenbildung
- Smallworld Interface
- BGRUND
- Moskito on the Intranet
- SAP-Connection
- OGC-Storage
- EDBS-Implementation
- Plan coloring with street lighting database
- Route calculation in the schematic plans
- Connect to Access databases
- Dialogue Editor
- Migration from SICAD to UT
- Query Builder 2003
Moskito Version 3
2004-2005
Application ALKIS
Expansion of converters
Application Street
- SQD converter
- EDBS converter
- New application for the Online-Routing
- Automatic hotlinks for multimedia links
- New format HDFDB
Moskito Version 4
2006-2007
Regulator Module
NETunique
Moskito Data Vortex
Tourism Web Portal "Greifswalder Bodden and Peenestrom"
New supply settings for the applications Power, Gas, Water and Sewerage
- Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) compliant route statistics
- Data conversion and migration
- Pipeline network homogenization
- Mosquito GIS for asphalt pavers
- Developed circuit coloring
- New SmallWorld export interface
- New symbol editor
Tragic accidental death of Hans-Josef Hoebertz
Moskito Version 5
2008-2013
New analysis tool InfraCal
Moskito Workbench
- Innovations in the kernel
- New user guidance and interface
- Improved graphic
- Extensive right administration
- NAS-Converter for AutoCAD and WEB-GIS
- NEPLAN-connection
- Expansion of the Application Power included the optical fiber (Fiber-optic cables)
- Moskito Mobil for tablet and smartphone
Moskito Version 6
2014-current
- The application of Sewerage expanded to the industrial wastewater and connection of inspection videos
- Raster graphics in ECW format can be transformed with Moskito
- NAS Reader developed in cooperation with Softtech Company
- Version Moskito 64-Bit

Job Board
Welcome to our job board.
If you are looking for new professional challenges, then you are on the right place. If you would like to work in a small team in which everyone does everything, we complement each other and help each other, then apply for one of the offered positions here. And maybe soon you will be part of our Moskito family....
Unfortunately, we have no vacancies to offer at present.
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Contact
Moskito Geoinformationssystem Company
Mengeder Str. 623
+49 (0)231-933 41-0