Posted in Publications on Sep 17th, 2017
We are currently guest-editing a special issue on “urban geoinformatics” in the Taylor & Francis journal “Geo-Spatial Information Science”. On this occasion, we’d like to encourage you to submit your crowdsourcing-related work emphasizing urban issues:
Title: Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics
Deadline: 30 October 2017
Guest editors:
Hongchao Fan, Wuhan University, (hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn)
João Porto de Albuquerque, University of Warwick, (J.Porto@warwick.ac.uk)
René Westerholt, [...]
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Posted in Services on Sep 14th, 2017
The second noteworthy news this week is that we have finally introduced the much-awaited time-distance matrix service with which you can finally compute one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many routes for any mode of transport provided by OpenRouteService. This service basically provides a terribly fast computation of time and distance between a set of input locations. Let’s [...]
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Posted in Services on Sep 12th, 2017
Less restrictions; added SAC
In the past you might have noticed that by using dynamic options - for instance avoidables or vehicle characteristics - your routes were restricted to a much smaller distances than without using any kind of profile parameters. The latest version of the API resolves this issue and lets you compute routes up [...]
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Posted in Crowd Analyser, Events, VGI Group on Sep 9th, 2017
GIScience Heidelberg recently contributed to the Annual International Conference, which was held in the premises of the Royal Geographical Society and at the Imperial College in London. Together with João Porto de Albuquerque from the University of Warwick, our member René Westerholt convened two workshop sessions about “spatial urban analytics” on Friday 01 September (link [...]
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Posted in Events, Services on Sep 8th, 2017
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is currently coordinating OSM mapping activities as response to Hurricane “Irma” which is affecting the islands of the Caribbean and Florida, as well as to the severe floods in Bangladesh. Besides these two heavily affected regions, in the early morning hours a severe earthquake with magnitude of 8.1 hit Mexico.
In [...]
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Posted in Events on Sep 8th, 2017
This year the capital of Canada will become the gathering place for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and Missing Maps community and partners.
September 12th/13th the Missing Maps members will come together for their annual meeting to discuss current projects, challenges, ideas and future plans. The next two days, September 14th/15th, the HOT Summit will provide [...]
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Posted in Research on Sep 7th, 2017
http://bit.ly/2upEw7a <- LandSense Questionnaire
LandSense aims to develop an online marketplace where companies that develop IT solutions using LULC data in one of three themes - urban, rural, and forestry, can acquire this information and further develop their products. By completing this questionnaire, you help us develop and further enhance our platform. Thank you very [...]
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Posted in Events on Sep 7th, 2017
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
Adaptive Trip Planning
Dr. Thomas Liebig
TU Dortmund, Artificial Intelligence Unit
Time and date: Tue, September 12, 10:00 am
Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University
Route planning makes direct use of geographic data and provides beneficial recommendations to the public. In real-world the schedule of transit [...]
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The 3D spatial data processing group had the opportunity to collaborate with the team of Prof. Tzu-Ping Lin from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, within the frame of a study dealing with carbon emission reduction measures in urban environments.
One option of reducing carbon emission by buildings is to install photovoltaic (PV) panels in [...]
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