Day: 6 February 2015

  • Disaster Mappers Heidelberg organize Talk on Humanitarian Mapping Technologies by Patrick Meier

    Thanks to the initative of the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg, Patrick Meier, co-founder of the StandbyTaskForce and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will give a presentation on February 11th 2015 via videoconference at the Insitute of Geography, Großer Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg at 4pm. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about Disaster Mapping, Crisis Mapping…

  • Two open thesis topics related to accessibility of mobility-restricted people

    As announced earlier in our blog, there are open thesis topics within the European project: CAP4Access. Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group is a project partner of CAP4ACCESS. Other project partners include UCL, Fraunhofer and sozialhelden.de with their wheelmap.org project. The goal of CAP4Access project is to improve the accessibility of mobility-restricted people, in particular those who are wheelchair users. As…