Month: September 2015
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Psychogeography project on SWR Television
Yesterday’s episode of the SWR TV program Odysso – Wissen im SWR was titled “Stadt, Land, Flucht! – Wo lebt es sich am besten?”. It focused on the relation between the environments and stress and gives insights to the Psychogeography project, a cooperation between the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) Mannheim, the Karlsruhe Institute…
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Program of our ISSDQ session on “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” is online
The program of our special session SS1 on “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” at the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2015) has been published online. ISSDQ is an event at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015 in Montpellier – La Grande Motte, France. The session is scheduled on…
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GIScience Heidelberg @ Intergeo 2015 Stuttgart 15-17 Sept. 2015
The fair INTERGEO 2015 is taking place in Stuttgart, Germany 15.-17. September 2015. The GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University will be present at the joint booth of the GeoNet.MRN, the Network Geoinformation of the Metropolitain Region Rhine-Neckar. There you will also find further members of the GeoNet.MRN, like the companies Heidelberg Mobil, geomer and Leiner…
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Quality Evaluation of OSM with Authoritative Data — a study of Land Use in Southern Germany
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) such as data derived from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is a popular data source for freely available geographic data. There is frequently a cause of concern regarding the quality and usability of such data. In addition to our former studies (further here) or complementing our OSM in GIScience Book in a…