Month: June 2016

  • Heidelberg Mobil moves into Mathematikon Heidelberg

    The IT company Heidelberg Mobil International (HDM-I) just moved into their new offices in the new Mathematikon Heidelberg. They are now neighbours to both the Institute of Geography and the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR) at Heidelberg University. HDM-I is a spin-off of the European Media Laboratory (EML) founded by the Klaus-Tschira Foundation (KTS)…

  • Link-VGI Workshop Programme @ AGILE2016 Helsinki

    Link-VGI: LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Link-VGI is a single-day pre-conference workshop at the AGILE 2016 Conference in Helsinki, Finland on June 14th 2016. The workshop will be held in Helsinki University Main building, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki. Link-VGI: Workshop Programme 09:00 – 09:15 Welcome Welcome, goals for the day, logistics,…

  • Deriving incline values for street networks from voluntarily collected GPS traces

    When producing optimal routes through an environment, considering the incline of surfaces can be of great benefit in a number of use cases. For instance, incline may be considered when computing the most energy-efficient routes for electric cars and bicycles. Likewise, pedestrians with restricted mobility (such as wheelchair users, parents with pushchairs, and the elderly)…

  • A conceptual model for quality assessment of VGI for the purpose of flood management

    Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a potential source of geographic information for different domains. Despite the many advantages associated with it, such information lacks of quality assurance, since it is provided by individuals with different motivations and backgrounds. In response to this, several methods have been proposed to assess the quality of volunteered…

  • Guided Classification System for Conceptual Overlapping Classes in OpenStreetMap

    The increased development of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and its potential role in GIScience studies raises questions about the resulting data quality. Several studies address VGI quality from various perspectives like completeness, positional accuracy, consistency, etc. They mostly have consensus on the heterogeneity of data quality. The problem may be due to the lack of…

  • GIScience HD Group Impressions

    Just before the last colloquium we spontaneously made some group photos of some members of the GIScience Heidelberg team…

  • Festakt und Tagung des “Reallabor Urban Office in Heidelberg”

    Am 2. und 3. Juni 2016 feierte das Heidelberger Reallabor “Urban Office – Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung in der Wissensgesellschaft” mit einer Fachtagung das mittlerweile eineinhalbjährige Bestehen dieses experimentellen Wissenschafts- und Projektformates. Es soll Wissenschaft und Praxis näher zusammenbringen, mit dem Ziel gemeinsam an Lösungen für eine nachhaltige Stadt in der Wissensgesellschaft von Morgen zu arbeiten. Das…

  • Mapping Sokodé – OSM Mapathon as Remote Support to enable local development

    This Wednesday June 08 students of the “Citizens as sensors” seminar will organize a mapping event to support local development in Sokodé (Togo) at the Department of Geography Heidelberg University. Thereby they want to add to previously successful mapping events organized by students, the disastermappers HD and GIScience HD in Heidelberg. For many places in…

  • Flood risk assessment at the future Mexico City International Airport – GIScience Colloquium presentation today

    We cordially invite any interested person to another public talk in our GIScience colloquium series this monday. The topic is: Flood risk assessment at the future Mexico City International Airport Dr. Carolina Ramírez-Núñez / visiting scientist GIScience Heidelberg, CONACYT, National Council of Science + Technology, Mexico Date: Mon, June 6, 2016, 14:15 pm, Location: Heidelberg…

  • Report on the International Workshop on Maritime Flows and Networks (WIMAKS’16)

    The second international workshop on maritime flows and networks was organized by the World Seastems European FP7 project during 25th-27th of April 2016 at the Institute of Complex Systems of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. The workshop contained 12 sessions, 3 keynote speeches and 33 paper presentations which were given by 72 participants. The…

  • Results on PsychoGeography published

    Recently some more publications have been accepted or have been published online that present some further results from our joint project on Psychogeography together with our partners from ZI Mannheim and KIT: In particular the following overview paper about the project is now available as free pdf online: Reichert, M., Törnros, T., Hoell, A., Dorn,…

  • New publication: ‘Terrestrial and unmanned aerial system imagery for deriving photogrammetric three-dimensional point clouds and volume models of mass wasting sites.’

    The results of a study dealing with photogrammetric 3D geodata of mass wasting sites conducted at the GIScience were considered to be worth publishing in the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing: ‘Terrestrial and unmanned aerial system imagery for deriving photogrammetric three-dimensional point clouds and volume models of mass wasting sites.‘ Three-dimensional (3D) geodata of mass…