Month: March 2015
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Derivation of an OSM graph with TMC LCL traffic information to provide real time traffic services
Increasing traffic, especially in urban areas, leads to more and more infrastructural bottlenecks and congestion inside transportation networks. The aim is therefore to use existing transport networks as efficiently as possible. Current traffic and incident reports from the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) are an important source of information to provide further services in the context…
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Invitation to Lecture on Climate Change by IPCC member Prof. T. Stocker
As a member of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) we want to make you aware of a public lecture by Prof. Dr. Thomas Stocker (Berne) on March 24: Within the scope of this year’s Spring Meeting at Heidelberg University, the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) presents an evening lecture given by Prof. Dr. Thomas…
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ISDE Video Competition for Young People
Who wants to be the winner in the ISDE Video Competition for Young People for the 9th International Symposium on Digital Earth in Halifax, Canada? The main theme of the symposium and thus the video should be “Towards a One-World Vision for the Blue Planet”. More details can be found here: http://www.digitalearth-isde.org/news/744
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Our edited book “OpenStreetMap in GISciene: Experiences, Research, and Applications” is now Online and orderable.
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to inform you that a book edited by Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Alexander Zipf, Peter Mooney, Marco Helbich entitled “OpenStreetMap in GISciene : Experiences, Research, and Applications” has been eventually published online and also in print format. The book contains 16 chapters on different aspects of OpenStreetMap in GIScience including 1) Data…
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Call for Abstracts and Special Sessions – 9th Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth
We would like to draw your attention to the second call for abstracts and special sessions for the 9th Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth, October 5-9, in Halifax, Canada. The overarching theme of the symposium is “Towards a One-World Vision for the Blue Planet”. See here for further events (co-)organized by the…
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FH Professorship for Geoinformatics for our team member Dr. Günther Sagl
We cordially congratulate Dr. Günther Sagl for his new position at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Engineering and IT in Villach Austria, where he holds a FH Professorship for Geoinformatics starting today! He is teaching there in the programs Geoinformation and Environmental Technologies (Bachelor) as well as Spatial Information Management (Master). Prof. Sagl is a…
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2nd. Call for Papers: RICH-VGI Workshop @ AGILE 2015, Lisboa
2nd Call for Papers: Enriching VGI @ AGILE 2015 Workshop We call for papers for the Workshop: RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge Workshop @ the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science Lisboa, Portugal. Tuesday 9 June 2015 In recent years we have witnessed the rapid…