Month: April 2016

  • 3D Participatory Sensing for Crop Height Assessment

    Participatory Sensing (PS) is a concept which enables laymen to easily gather geodata with standard low-cost mobile devices, offering new and efficient opportunities for agricultural monitoring. The integration of local agricultural knowledge may help to better understand complex phenomena such as the association between climate variability, crop yields and undernutrition. In our new study we…

  • 10 Days to Deadline for Link-VGI Workshop Short Papers at AGILE 2016

    A little reminder that the Deadline for Short Papers for the Link-VGI Pre Conference Workshop at AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki is approaching! The main theme is “LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms” and the workshop shall focus, but is not limited to, the following topics and…

  • GIScience HD re-united in new office building (new address!)

    This week the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg is moving to a new location: the offices of the whole group are now in the building-complex Im Neuenheimer Feld 368 (1st floor) and 348 (ground floor) – also called INF 348 and INF 368 for short – at the Neuenheim Campus (“Im Feld”) of Heidelberg University. Because…

  • disastermappers heidelberg and GIScience meeting Missing Maps in London to foster collaboration and partnership

    Last week, Carolin Klonner, Benjamin Herfort, Melanie Eckle (GIScience Heidelberg and disastermappers heidelberg), Svend-Jonas Schelhorn, Christof Nichterlein (disastermappers heidelberg), Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque (GIScience Heidelberg and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick) and Roberto Rocha (University of Münster) travelled to London to meet the Missing Maps team. During a one and a…

  • OpenRouteService Update 3.1 – with Surface Information and more!

    In our latest release we have primarily focused on optimising and stabilising the backend and on adding new elements to provide an improved user experience throughout the OpenRouteService 3.1. We improved the visualisation of real-time traffic information for the route instructions as they now appear as number of warnings within the route summary (currently for Germany…

  • Specialization in Geoinformatics in Master Geography @ Heidelberg

    You can now find more information about the specialization in Geoinformatics in the Master of Science “Geography” at the Institue of Geography at Heidelberg University online (in German). Also further information about typical courses in the Bachelor programme in Geography at Heidelberg is presented. Usually the majority of the courses are given in German language.

  • OpenRouteService featured in MENSCHEN. das magazin.

    Among other great apps OpenRouteService and the corresponding Navigation App developed in our group have been mentioned in the germanwide magazine “MENSCHEN. das magazin.” (~30k copies). The current issue has a special focus on accessibility, where particularly the wheelchair profile of ORS that is currently under development in the scope of the CAP4Access project fits…

  • Praxis-Forum “Open Data” Heidelberg ::: GIScience contributes with open table about Disaster Management with OpenStreetMap ::: Register until April 10th

    we want to make you aware that it is still possible to register for the Praxis-Foum “Open Data” in Heidelberg which will take place on Friday April 15th in the new Mathematikon. This time the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg will do a hands on “Open Table” introduction to Disaster Management with OpenStreetMap. The event is…

  • 3rd Call for short papers: LINK-VGI Workshop @ AGILE Conf. Helsinki, DL

    reminder: Deadline approaching April 25th LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki, June 14th 2016 Deadline for Call for Short Paper (AGILE short paper format): April 25th 2016 The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is…