Month: April 2018
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A brief intro to the OpenStreetMap History Database (OSHDB) API
The OpenStreetMap History Database (OSHDB) is the main data backend developed at HeiGIT for the ohsome OSM history analytics platform, that will make OSM’s history data more accessible for further analysis. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a rich resource of freely available geographic information. However, the possibilities for analyzing OSM data on a global scale are limited because of…
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Open – POI – Service Helps You Find Points of Interest!
Once again we are extremely excited to announce a new open source project we have been working on over the past few months. To honor the name, we have coined it openpoiservice and it has the simple task of finding points of interest for a given geometry! To this end, it is able to return…
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Deadline Extended to April 23: VGI-ALIVE Workshop @AGILE 2018
The Deadline for submitting short papers to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE 2018 has been extended to 23 April 2018! This is your chance to submit another contribution to this exiting workshop in Lund, Sweden. Submission format is a workshop short paper (2000 to 3000-word manuscript). Authors of accepted workshop papers will be invited to…
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Celebrating 10 Years of Openrouteservice – The First OpenStreetMap Route Planner
Exactly 10 years ago openrouteservice.org came online for the very first time. Back then it was the very first online routing service consuming data from OpenStreetMap.org covering larger areas. So to say it is ‘the original‘ OSM routing service. It initially started with Germany only and soon we provided routing for Europe and finally the…
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Keynote at GISRUK Conference 2018, Leicester
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf is a invited keynote speaker at the 26th annual GIScience Research UK conference (GISRUK) will be held at the University of Leicester on 17-20 April 2018. On Thursday April 18th he will give a talk on “Operationalising Volunteered Geographic Information – From Analytics to Improvement and Application“. Much research has been…
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Nama Budhathoki (Kathmandu Living Labs) visit at GIScience/ HeiGIT- The power of civic tech or how to connect data, GIS technology and people
Just before the Easter holidays, our GIScience/HeiGIT team hosted Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki, Executive Director of Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL), to take our existing collaboration to the next level. KLL and GIScience/HeiGIT have collaborated in various projects in the last few years. GIScience/HeiGIT have contributed to OSM data of Nepal through mapathons in Heidelberg. Relevant…
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Let’s meet at SOTM 2018 :: Paper on OSM History Analytics Accepted in Academic Track
A paper for the Academic Track of the State of the Map Conference, Milan, has been accepted. We are looking forward to discuss with you following aspects: A growing number of studies analyzes OSM data, its contributors, usage, and quality. Such studies were mostly limited to analyzing either small samples of the OSM database or…
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Save-the-Date: Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg diesmal an zwei Tagen
Save-the-Date: Der ‘Fachaustausch Geoinformation‘ versammelt die Geo-Community dieses Jahr am 28.11. und 29.11.2018 in Heidelberg Die Jahreskonferenz des GeoNet.MRN e.V., der “Fachaustausch Geoinformation” hat in den letzten Jahren stetig an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies spiegelt sich auch an den wachsenden Teilnehmerzahlen wieder. Die hohe Themenvielfalt und der erfreuliche Teilnehmerzuwachs haben uns dazu bewogen, unsere Jahreskonferenz in…
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Towards Using the Potential of OpenStreetMap History for Disaster Activation Monitoring
Over the last years, the growing OpenStreetMap (OSM) database repeatedly proved its potential for various use cases, including disaster management. Disaster mapping activations show increasing contributions, but oftentimes raise questions related to the quality of the provided Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). In order to better monitor and understand OSM mapping and data quality, HeiGIT developed…
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Visit to the ‘Illusions’ Exhibition at Ginko Museum Heidelberg
Recently some members of the GIScience Research Group / HeiGIT from Heidelberg University visited the exhibition ‘Illusions’ at the Museum am Ginko Heidelberg. It was both very interesting and a lot of fun, including featuring a VR rollercoaster demo. Find below some impressions of the hike and visit.