Month: June 2017

  • Call For Participation for Crowdsourced Damage Assessment Project

    In the aftermath of a disaster, knowing the condition of buildings, infrastructure, and utilities is critical to both immediate response and long-term recovery efforts. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is often asked to help identify damage to buildings and other assets in the affected region. In the past, limitations in post-disaster imagery and difficulties in…

  • MapSwipe Analytics: Map each Swipe and Tap

    Since the launch of the MapSwipe Analytics webpage three month ago we were able to improve our service and offer more detailed information on each project in MapSwipe. MapSwipe is a mobile App for crowdsourcing geographic information needed by humanitarian organisations like Red Cross and Doctors without Borders (MSF) introduced earlier. In particular the data can be used for priorizing areas…

  • OSMlanduse validation workshop

    https://laco-wiki.net Heidelberg https://laco-wiki.net/c/hei_shrubs_mapathon #shrubs https://laco-wiki.net/c/hei_pasture_mapathon # pastures https://laco-wiki.net/c/hei_crops_mapathon # agriculture https://laco-wiki.net/c/hei_artificial_mapat # artificial non – vegetated https://laco-wiki.net/c/hei_industry_mapatho # industry Toulouse https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_urban_mapathon # urban https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_industry_mapatho # industry https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_artificial_mapat # artificial non – vegetated https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_arable_mapathon # arable land https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_crops_mapathon # agriculture https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_pasture_mapathon # pasture https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_forest_mapathon # forest https://laco-wiki.net/c/tls_shrub_mapathon # shrubs Vienna https://laco-wiki.net/c/vie_urban_mapathon # urban https://laco-wiki.net/c/vie_industry_mapatho # industry https://laco-wiki.net/c/vie_artificial_mapat # artificial non – vegetated…

  • Are Crowdsourced Datasets Suitable for Specialized Routing Services? Case Study of OpenStreetMap for Routing of People with Limited Mobility

    Using data generated from the crowd has become a hot topic for several application domains including transportation. However, there are concerns regarding the quality of such datasets. As one of the most important crowdsourced mapping platforms, in a recent study (1) we analyze the fitness for use of OpenStreetMap (OSM) database for routing and navigation…

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Semantic Signatures for Social Sensing in Smart Environments by Prof. Janowicz

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Semantic Signatures for Social Sensing in Smart Environments Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz Associate Professor for Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics at the Geography Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Time and date: Mon, July 3, 2.15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room…

  • Missing Maps Data Collection and Validation Mapathon to help eliminate Malaria

    Malaria is a major threat to people all around the world, particularly those most vulnerable: children and elderly. Our previous events Semester Start Missing Maps mapathon for World Malaria Day 2017 and Missing Maps Mapathon at Makerspace (DAI) aimed to support projects to identify potential malaria affected areas and enable better Malaria prevention in collaboration…

  • Introducing LABS.OpenRouteService.org with Open Space Routing and the Places POI search API

    Some of the results from our research are transformed into stable and professionally managed services, that are used by the wider public. A prominent example is OpenRouteService.org. Since it’s introduction in early 2008 it has been transformed now to a rigorously tested rich API that is hosted on a cloud system and that can be…

  • New QGIS-PlugIn for OSM-Routing and Accessibility Analysis using OpenRouteService

    Recently a new “OSM Tools Plugin” for QGIS had been developed by Nils Nolde. It replaces the original OSMroute plugin for QGIS by Riccardo Klinger, which is now deprecated, as he unfortunately lacks the time to maintain it. Thanks a lot to Riccardo and Nils for their wonderful efforts and contributions so far! The new “OSM…

  • Mapathon – Open Street Map land use quality

    Inspect, judge and estimate OSM land use for Heidelberg and other European cities at Berliner Str. 48, 6pm, 29.06. osmlanduse.org osmlanduse validation mapathon 29.06.2017 Knowledge of land use dynamics is essential for a permanent human existence on earth, for instance due to changing climate. Various commercial and scientific products depicting our habitat exist, involving heavy production cost, questionable accuracies and inadequate update cycles. To this end,…

  • New Disaster OpenRouteService for Africa, South America and Indonesia released, supporting humanitarian logistics with OSM more sustainably

    Recently HeiGIT @ GIScience Heidelberg released a dedicated stable disaster version of OpenRouteService (ORS) to support humanitarian logistics within specific regions of catastrophes with data from OSM in a more sustainable way. Since his start in 2008 OpenRouteServivce had been spontaneously applied for specific real world disaster cases already numerous times, for instance during the earthquakes in…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Terrestrial laser scanning for Geomorphometry

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk on Mon, June 19, 2.15 pm, at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015. The presentation will be given by Dr. Daniel Wujanz (Technische Universität Berlin). The topic is: Terrestrial laser scanning for Geomorphometry – Some remarks on pitfalls…

  • Job Offer: Software Developer Backend Geoinformation Technology Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT)

    Stellenausschreibung Software Developer Backend Geoinformation Technology Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) Zur Förderung von Technologietransfer und angewandter Forschung im Bereich Geoinformatik wird derzeit mit Grundförderung der Klaus-Tschira Stiftung das Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) aufgebaut. http://www.heigit.org. Dies soll zukünftig als An-Institut weitergeführt werden. Hierfür wird ein Software Engineer Backend Geoinformation Technology gesucht (100%).…