• Home
  • About

GIScience News Blog

News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.

Feed on
Posts
Comments
« Mapping ramps on the ocassion of the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Heidelberg
Invitation: Colloquium Talk by Jun.-Prof. Sven Lautenbach on Trade-offs Between Land use and Ecosystem Services »

GIScience Research Group support for Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team Fundraising Campaign

Dec 8th, 2016 by Melanie Eckle

One main focus of the GIScience Research Group is the research and education with respect to advancing methods, technologies and applications of Volunteered Geographic Information - in particular OpenStreetMap - for applications from logistics to humanitarian aid. In this vein, the group has been also been supporting the work of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) team for several years with OSM and disaster related research and applications as well as by organizing mapping events.

These activities also led to the launch of the disastermappers heidelberg which are organizing mapping events, webinars and workshops in close relationship with the HOT team to enable students and researchers to learn more about OpenStreetMap, possible applications of the OSM data and the work of HOT.

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team coordinates an international mapping community with which they map the vulnerable and disaster prone places in our world. Moreover, it supports local mapping communities to enable local development and disaster preparedness. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team and the international contributors thereby fill gaps in the worldwide OpenStreetMap and create a valuable data treasure.

Building on these previous activities, the GIScience and disastermappers are happy to now support the yearly fundraising campaign of the HOT team. The focus hereby being on micro-grants which will allow to spark and support international local HOT/ OSM community-led projects. Thereby more communities and volunteers will have the chance to become part of this community and benefit of the OSM data for their local needs.

Sounds interesting? If you want to learn more about the campaign and how to support, please visit:

https://donate.hotosm.org/giscience-research-group-disastermappers-heidelberg

or join us in todays HOT Christmas Mapping Event, starting at 6 pm in the Geographical Institute!

2016 social media mapthedifference (1).jpg

Tags: Fundraising, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team, OpenStreetMap

Posted in OSM, VGI Group

Comments are closed.

  • About

    GIScience News Blog
    News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
    There are 1,484 Posts and 0 Comments so far.

  • Meta

    • Log in
    • Entries RSS
    • Comments RSS
    • WordPress.org
  • Recent Posts

    • Successful PhD Defense by Amin Mobasheri on OSM quality enrichment for wheelchair routing
    • New paper published about the OSM Sketch Map Tool
    • Open Data + Open Software - A perfect match
    • Tagging the main entrances of public buildings based on OpenStreetMap and binary imbalanced learning
    • Press release: Understanding the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Landscape Dynamics
  • Tags

    3D 3DGEO Big Spatial Data CAP4Access Citizen Science Colloquium crisis mapping Crowdsourcing data quality disaster DisasterMapping GeoNet.MRN GIScience heigit HOT humanitarian Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team intrinsic quality analysis landuse laser scanning Lidar Mapathon MapSwipe MissingMaps Missing Maps ohsome ohsome example Open data openrouteservice OpenStreetMap OSM OSM History Analytics OSMlanduse Quality quality analysis remote sensing routing social media spatial analysis Teaching terrestrial laser scanning Twitter VGI Wheelchair Navigation Workshop
  • Archives

    • March 2021
    • February 2021
    • January 2021
    • December 2020
    • November 2020
    • October 2020
    • September 2020
    • August 2020
    • July 2020
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • April 2020
    • March 2020
    • February 2020
    • January 2020
    • December 2019
    • November 2019
    • October 2019
    • September 2019
    • August 2019
    • July 2019
    • June 2019
    • May 2019
    • April 2019
    • March 2019
    • February 2019
    • January 2019
    • December 2018
    • November 2018
    • October 2018
    • September 2018
    • August 2018
    • July 2018
    • June 2018
    • May 2018
    • April 2018
    • March 2018
    • February 2018
    • January 2018
    • December 2017
    • November 2017
    • October 2017
    • September 2017
    • August 2017
    • July 2017
    • June 2017
    • May 2017
    • April 2017
    • March 2017
    • February 2017
    • January 2017
    • December 2016
    • November 2016
    • October 2016
    • September 2016
    • August 2016
    • July 2016
    • June 2016
    • May 2016
    • April 2016
    • March 2016
    • February 2016
    • January 2016
    • December 2015
    • November 2015
    • October 2015
    • September 2015
    • August 2015
    • July 2015
    • June 2015
    • May 2015
    • April 2015
    • March 2015
    • February 2015
    • January 2015
    • December 2014
    • November 2014
    • October 2014
    • September 2014
    • August 2014
    • July 2014
    • June 2014
    • May 2014
    • April 2014
    • March 2014
    • February 2014
    • January 2014
    • December 2013
    • November 2013
    • October 2013
    • September 2013
    • August 2013
    • July 2013
    • June 2013
    • May 2013
    • April 2013
  •  

    December 2016
    M T W T F S S
    « Nov   Jan »
     1234
    567891011
    12131415161718
    19202122232425
    262728293031  
  • Recent Comments

    GIScience News Blog CC by-nc-sa Some Rights Reserved.

    Free WordPress Themes | Fresh WordPress Themes