Month: June 2016

  • Carlo Ratti from MIT Senseable City Lab talks in Heidelberg today

    Professor Carlo Ratti, Director of the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US is giving a public presentation this evening in the context of the Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Heidelberg – Wissen schafft Stadt. He will present some of his works and ideas with respect to the senseable city and how this…

  • OpenRouteService 3.3 is going Mobile – Routing in the Americas, Gradients 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 3.3 based on OpenStreetMap data. After many requests from our community, we for starters can happily announce that we have made the service responsive for your mobile smartphones.…

  • Volunteered geographic (mis)information? Measuring quality in crowdsourced maps – Colloquium Presentation by Andrea Ballatore this Monday

    We invite anybody interested to the following open talk in our GIScience colloquium series this Monday: Volunteered geographic (mis)information? Measuring quality in crowdsourced maps Dr. Andrea Ballatore Dept of Geography, Environment and Development Studies Birkbeck, University of London Lecturer in GIS and Big Data Analytics Mon, June 27, 2016, 2.15 pm, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg…

  • PhD Defence Lucy Mburu on Geographic Criminal Profiling

    This Friday – the hottest day of the year so far – Lucy Waruguru Mburu from the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University successfully defended her PhD thesis on Criminal Geographic Profiling methods. Her thesis is entitled: “ A Framework for Prediciting Criminal Behavior and Area-Specific Crime Risk through Retrospective Analysis of Geographic Data“. Complemented by…

  • Utilising social media data for transport planning and traffic management

    Dr. Enrico Steiger (GIScience Heidelberg) will give a invited presentation about “Utilising social media data for transport planning and traffic management” on 4pm – 5:30pm, Thu, 23 Jun ’16 at Room CS101, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University UK Sustainable Cities Global Research Priority JOINT GRP / WISC SEMINAR The overall aim of the talk…

  • WeGovNow WebPage is live – Towards #WeGovernment

    The WeGovNow Towards #WeGovernment: Collective and participative approaches for addressing local policy challenges Establishing citizens as partners in the delivery of public services. A new type of citizen engagement platform, expanding the viability of and capacity for citizen coproduction in the public sector. WeGovNow and its 12 partner organisations are building upon earlier research and…

  • GIScience participates in ESNC-Kick-off Meeting in Heidelberg (Heidelberg Mobil International, Mathematikon this Tuesday)

    ESNC-Kick-off Meeting Satellitennavigation in Baden-Württemberg und Polen am 21. Juni 2016 von 10 bis 12 Uhr in Heidelberg bei Heidelberg Mobil International GmbH, Mathematikon – mittlerer Bauteil, Berliner Str. 41, 69120 Heidelberg More Info and Registration: http://www.esnc-bw.de/de/anmeldung-2 Die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Satellitennavigation ist enorm.* Unsere Infrastruktur ist auf die Helfer aus dem All angewiesen und…

  • GIScience @geoinfo.potsdam.2016

    From 14.6.-16.6. our research group was represented by Stefan Hahmann at geoinfo.potsdam.2016 (aka 64. Deutscher Kartographentag, aka Geoinformatik 2016). The conference has seen ~150 participants from the sectors universities, administration, industry and research institutes. The programme had a strong focus on recent developments in various geo applications with sessions on visualisation methods, geoinformatics and ongoing…

  • Forest change monitoring – GIScience colloquium, Monday 20.06.

    We cordially invite anybody interested to join our open GIScience colloquium talk on Monday about Forest change monitoring Michael Schultz Remote Sensing group of Wageningen University Mon, June 20, 2016, 2.00 pm, Heidelberg University, Institute of Geography, INF 348, Lecture Hall (Room 015) Forest are the lungs of the earth, many species including our own…

  • A Two-Tiered Approach to OSM Data collection for Novice Users & Personalizing Walkability

    In addition to the two earlier presentations (No 1, No 2), today there are two additional presentations (No 3 & 4) by GIScience Heidelberg at AGILE 2016 conference in Helsinki: Rousell, A., Hahmann, S., Mobasheri, A. (2016): A Two-Tiered Approach to OSM Data collection for Novice Users. 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Helsinki,…

  • This Thursday 2nd MissingMaps Mapathon for Sokode/Togo in Heidelberg

    As a direct follow_up of the successfull Mapathon in support of Sokode/Togo last week we invite any interested person to an additional MISSING MAPS mapping event THIS THURSDAY June 16th. time: 18.00 – 20:00 p.m. (before the soccer game 😉 location: Berliner Straße 48, PC-Pool/ Hörsaal (Lecture Hall), Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University. A short…

  • Clustering and Analyzing Air Pollution Data using Self-Organizing Maps

    Today Enrico Steiger is presenting the following paper at AGILE 2016 conference Helsinki: Lee, M., Steiger, E. Zipf, A. (2016): Clustering and Analyzing Air Pollution Data using Self-Organizing Maps. 19th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Helsinki, Finnland. In Geographic Information Science the rise in the availability of spatial data paved ways for increased research…