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Month: January 2017

  • GIScienceSnowMan

    INF348, Heidelberg

  • Mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil

    We want to welcome the year 2017 with a mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil! When: 19.01.2017, 18:00 Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48 This time we will focus on Aweil, the capital of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The region is home to tens of thousands of people, many of whom…

  • Why is it routing this way?

    When using routing services that rely on OpenStreetMap data, the route engine might suggest you a path that seems to be longer than the shortest possible route you could identify on the map. The main reason behind this are either a lack of data completeness in OSM (for certain data attributes/ for certain regions) or…

  • A Route Planner for Every Eventuality – Report about GIScience & HeiGIT

    Heidelberg University reports about some of the work of the GIScience research group and at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT), which is currently being established and core funded by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung. The short reports are available in English and in German. Enjoy! Check some of the Online Services by GIScience &…

  • Invitiation: Colloquium Talk by Dr. Wei Huang on Modelling Intra-urban Human Activity Patterns

    We cordially invite all interested to our forthcoming talk in the GIScience colloquium next Monday, January 09, about modelling human activity patterns in cities using crowdsourcing and geosocial media data. Dr. Wei Huang presents a novel approach which considers motivation for human activities and makes it possible to take activity change into account. Modelling Intra-urban Human…