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Daily Archive for September 20th, 2017

HeiGIT/GIScience at annual HOT and Missing Maps events in Canada

Posted in Events on Sep 20th, 2017

Canada- picturesque mountains, craggy-coasts, vast untouched landscapes, diverse cultures- and a country that is increasingly supporting the use of open data. In this vein, last week the capital of Canada became a place for exchange, knowledge sharing and awareness building all around the use of open data to support humanitarian and disaster related purposes.
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DFG Summer School “VGI”

Posted in Crowd Analyser, Events, OSM, VGI Group on Sep 20th, 2017

Last week, our colleagues Franz-Benjamin Mocnik and René Westerholt participated in a summer school of the DFG priority programme on “VGI”. GIScience Heidelberg is involved in that programme by two projects, one of which is dealing with data quality issues and another one that investigates the assessment of spatial assotiations in social media data. The [...]

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