Month: June 2015
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MayaArch3D Closing Meeting 4th/5th of June 2015 at DAI-KAAK, Bonn
The MayaArch3D project held its final closing meeting at the German Archaeological Institute in Bonn from the 4th to the 5th of June 2015. Two days of discussions and presentations demonstrated the results of the 3-year BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research) funded project “MayaArch3D – A Web-based 3D-GIS for the Analysis of the…
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Invitation to GIScience Colloquium: An Agent-Based Model of Individual and Collective Place Formation
We cordially invite any interested person to the next GIScience Heidelberg colloquium presentation this week on Thursday, 18 June 2015, 2.00 p.m. in the Lecture Hall, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Berliner Str. 48, 69120 HD. The title of the talk is “An Agent-Based Model of Individual and Collective Place Formation” and will be given…
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Bernd Resch receives Theodor-Körner Award
At a ceremony at the University of Vienna Bernd Resch (Heidelberg University and University of Salzburg) received the Theodor-Körner Award in the category of medicine, natural sciences and technology. The Price was awarded by the Austrian Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology (bmvit). In his work, Bernd Resch focuses on assessing human emotions with a…
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HowTo use OpenRouteService in QGIS
Riccardo has written a short introduction on how to integrate OpenRouteService into the Open Source GIS QGIS at digital-geography. Thanks for this. It is obviously quite easy (even easier than Google as he states) and similar things could be done e.g. with the OpenRouteService geocoder or Accessibility Analysis Service (for calculating Isochrones) etc. While for…
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RICH-VGI workshop at 18th AGILE conference, Lisbon
Our AGILE workshop called RICH-VGI (enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge) was held on June 9, 2015 in Lisbon as part of the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) with comparatively a large number of participants. The…
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Colloquium Talk by Guibo Sun
This week Dr. Guibo Sun will talk about different correlates that affect the walking behaviour around metro stations in Beijing. Guibo is working as a research associate at the Chinese University of Hongkong (Institute of Earth and Space Information Science). Please find a more elaborate abstract on our web page. Built-environment correlates of walking from…
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Andreas Reimer successfully defends his PhD on Cartographic Modeling for Automated Map Generation
Last week our GIScience team member Dr. Andreas Reimer successfully defended his PhD at TU Eindhoven (Promotor: Prof. Dr. Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven and Co-promotor: Prof. Dr. W.A. Mackaness, Edinburgh). The topic of the PhD thesis was “Cartographic modelling for automated map generation” and includes a range of fascinating research on cartography, ranging from schematizing and…
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Missing Maps visit Heidelberg and New Mapping Event on Monday May 8th.
Members of the Missing Maps project, Doctors without Borders, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T) and the British Red Cross paid a visit to the disastermappers heidelberg beginning of last week to discuss new ideas and further collaboration. The day started with a lecture about Crowdsourced Information for Disaster Risk Management that was held by Melanie…
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Report on Human Sensor and Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management (HSenSIG) training school
On the dates of 11 to 15th of May, the European Commission (COST Action TD1202: Mapping and the Citizen Sensor) organized a training school on Human Sensor and Geographic Information Systems for Disaster Risk Management (HSenSIG) hosted by the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at University of Coimbra, Portugal. Our colleague, Prof. João Porto Albuquerque was invited…
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Pairwise Line Labeling of Geographic Boundaries
We present an algorithm that labels linear features with two matched toponyms describing the left and the right side of a line, respectively. Such a pairwise line labeling is a common technique used in manually produced maps (see Figure 1). The lines differentiate administrative divisions or other geographic subdivisions. The proposed method can be used…
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Long-expected major Update on OpenRouteService with many new features in backend and frontend
Our OpenRouteService has some new features and crucial bug fixes to boast. First of all we revamped the backend of the service, and while not only making it faster, more stable and efficient, we added a new profile for heavy vehicles. This includes the sub-profiles forestry, agricultural and delivery vehicles as well as buses and…