Month: September 2017

  • OpenRouteService with Locations, SAC-scale and more!

    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…

  • Workshop on Spatial Urban Analytics

    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…

  • Disaster OpenRouteService now active in the Caribbean, North America (incl. Mexico) and Bangladesh

    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.…

  • Maptember in Ottawa: HeiGIT/GIScience at Missing Maps and HOT gatherings

    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…

  • LandSense Questionnaire

    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…

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Adaptive Trip Planning by Dr. Thomas Liebig

    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.…

  • Study “Multiscale analysis and reduction measures of urban carbon dioxide budget based on building energy consumption” published

    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…