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Month: November 2013

  • WebMapping for Disaster Relief after Typhoon Yolanda

    In order to support the disaster management activities after the typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan a new WebSite http://crisismap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/ has been set up by GIScience Heidelberg that visualizes the new map layers described earlier: the “Elements at Risk” and “Population Distribution” for the Philipines. Further it adds a currently less populated Flickr layer and a storm surge layer…

  • Digital Geoarchaeology 2013: Laser scanning hands-on workshop with GIScience assistance

    On Saturday, 9th of November, a hands-on laser scanning workshop took place within the framework of the Conference ‘Digital Geoarchaeology – New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research‘ (held at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities). The conference organizers Dr. Christoph Siart1) and Dipl.-Geogr. Markus Forbriger2) introduced a group of interested conference participants to terrestrial…

  • Population distribution and Elements at Risk layers for Philippines now available

    Knowing where people in need could be in a crisis situation is as crucial as it is difficult. Sometimes the difficulty is just not having a convenient way to display or access extant datasources.As a service to the crisis mappers we supply a Tile Service showing the residential population distribution in the Philipines in 90m…

  • Uni Heidelberg “OSM Mapathon” for Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan: Thursday afternoon, November 14th 2013

    UPDATE: First Impressions from the Mapathon Thursday 14th can be found here. UPDATE2: An additional Mapathon will take place on Friday 22nd 2013 in the lecture hall of the Department of Geography, Berliner Str. 48, Heidelberg University. In order to to support the crisis mappers with better geographic information and maps for the regions affected…

  • OSM Response to Typhoon Haiyan

    An new interactive visualization by our colleague Pascal Neis shows the latest changes to the OpenStreetMap database in the Philippines. This can help to identify areas where the OSM crisis mapper community is already activen and those where further contibutions are needed. Only OSM changesets in the Philippines and some parts of the Vietnam coast…

  • CrisisMapping Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

    Typhoon Haiyan (also called Yolanda) has hit the Phillipines killing likely over 1000 people and is approaching Vietnam and Laos. The crisis mapper communities have reacted fast and started to map the affected areas in OpenStreetMap such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) and the Standby Task Force (SBTF) is officially deploying in response to…

  • Fun GeoCaching at Night

    GIScience research group members have some fun with their GPS while GeoCaching at Night (pic 1) in beautiful Heidelberg (pic 2, the day after).

  • Research Stay at Harvard CGA

    René Westerholt is currently visiting the Center for Geographic Analysis (Harvard University) in Cambridge, USA. The two-month research stay (funded by the German Excellence Initiative II) aims to foster new research collaborations between Harvard CGA and GIScience Heidelberg in the field of Live-Geography / People as Sensors. Both institutions have been in continuous exchange through…

  • Some Impressions from the Conference on Social Media in Disaster Management in Heidelberg

    Here you find some first impressions from our very successful conference on Web 2.0 and social media in disaster management that we organized in Heidelberg on October 17th. Here you find the presentations.

  • Open PostDoc Position @ GIScience Heidelberg: VGI/OSM & Navigation/LBS/Routing

    We offer an PostDoc Position in Geoinformatics on VGI / OSM / Navigation / Routing / LBS. The position is funded for at least three years. More information can be found here. We are looking forward to your applications.

  • Programm verfügbar: Einladung zum “Fachaustausch Geoinformation” am 27.11.2013 in Heidelberg

    bereits zum 5. Mal veranstaltet das Geoinformationsnetzwerk der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GeoNet.MRN den Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg (27.11.2013). Die Veranstaltung unter der Schirmherrschaft des Ministeriums für Wirtschaft und Finanzen Baden-Württemberg dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Interessenten, Experten, Nutzern und Entscheidungsträgern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und aktuelle Themen in der Geoinformationswirtschaft. Offizieller Partner der…

  • Mapping land-use from OpenStreetMap

    An approach toward generating land-use patterns from volunteered geographic information (VGI) without applying remote-sensing techniques and/or engaging official data has just been published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Geographic Information Science. Collaboratively collected OpenStreetMap (OSM) data sets are employed to map land-use patterns. Initially the spatial pattern of the landscape was…