Day: 7 March 2018
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Openrouteservice for Disaster Management: Supporting Humanitarian Logistics with Hourly Updates
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) provides immediate support for disaster or humanitarian responses by coordinating and activating a global network of mappers that contribute up-to-date geodata to the OSM database. For example, after the Nepal earthquake 2015 volunteers added up to 800 km to the OSM street network per hour! This information could successfully support…
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Dr. Wei Huang was visiting the Institute of Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System at Peking University, Beijing, China
Our colleague Wei Huang was invited to give a talk at the Institute of Remote Sensing & Geographical Information System, Peking University, Beijing, China, on Mach 5, 2018. He presented his recent research on human activity pattern study at city scale based on geospatial data analytics. The researchers in the institute at Peking University also…