Month: September 2013
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Maptember: GIScience group members at SotM 2013
This year the State of the Map conference was held at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. The SotM is the conference on all things OpenStreetMap and at the same time a friendly meetup for hobbyists and professionals alike. Speakers from our group were Christopher Barron and myself. Here is a shot of Christopher during his presentation…
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Save the Date: Fachaustausch Geoinformation. Heidelberg, 27.11.2013
The date of this years “Fachaustausch Geoinformation. Heidelberg” is November 27th 2013. As always it takes place in the Print Media Academy and will encompass a set of interesting talks from Science and the GIS Community. This years main topics for the three sessions are: “Planen & Bauen”, “Geomedizin” und “Virtuelle Räume”. Further information are…
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New version of OpenRouteService Web-GUI online
The beta-version of the new WebGUI for OpenRouteService has been updated. It has now all the major functions of the old version, with some improvements in usability. The default version offers only the most important basic functions, while additional functions are available when the extended version is being selected. These choices can be made from…
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Just in time geographies @ EUGEO 2013
We do contribute to the session “just in time geographies” (S19) at the EUGEO congress of the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe. It is taking place in Rome 5.-7. September 2013 and Alexander Zipf is giving an invited talk on the relationship between VGI data quality and usage potential for dynamic geographies. This session…
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Draft Programme for conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”
A first draft list of talks and presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” (17.10.2013, Heidelberg, Studio Villa Bosch) is available. In addition there will be several short presentations during the workshop-part of the event. This is a draft programme subject to change: some titles are still working titles.…