Day: 19 November 2014
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GIScience Heidelberg visit ACM Sigspatial conference
Last week members of the GIScience Research Group were attending the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Dallas. Beside the interesting welcome note given by Luc Vincent talking about the Google Street View project and further follow-up keynote talks, the first conference day was opened up for full day workshops covering various…
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Collaboration with Kathmandu Living Labs: innovative teaching for improving resilience against disasters with collaborative maps
Germany is the leading country when it comes to OpenStreetMap (OSM), and here this online map as well as the OSM data are well recognized. But what about other parts of the world? What kind of possibilities can OSM offer for fostering development and building resilience against disasters? Last Friday the students attending of the…