Month: March 2019

  • Kick-off meeting of BMBF/MOST project “ER3DS” at Heidelberg University

    On Tuesday 26 March 2019, the 3DGeo Research Group of Prof. Bernhard Höfle and the newly founded Transdisciplinary Lab (TdLab) Geography (Dr. Nicole Aeschbach) hosted a workshop on “Emission Reduction in Smart Cities Using 3D Spatial Sensing and Analysis (ER3DS)” within the frame of the collaboration and exchange project ER3DS running from 2019 to 2020. The…

  • How to become ohsome part 4: handling a snake in a notebook on another planet

    Welcome back to a new episode of how to become ohsome. Yes, you’ve read the heading correctly. We are really talking about a snake in a notebook on another planet. If you are familiar with one of the most used programming languages in the GIS world, you might already know by now which snake is…

  • openrouteservice for Disaster Management: Response to Cyclone Idai

    The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has launched an activation to support humanitarian operations responding to the impact of Cyclone Idai. These efforts were already supported by more than 1500 mappers of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community that contribute geodata about the affected regions in Mozambique and the surrounding countries. The team at HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for…

  • HeiGIT supports Citizien Science @ Helmholtz ThinkCamp

    We are always happy to support citizen science projects at the HeiGIT. HeiGIT/ GIScience efforts already range from tools that assess the data quality of citizen science projects (see, e.g., this blog post about “Plausible Parrots“) to approaches related to data creation, like MapSwipe Analytics (learn more here). Currently, we are supporting citizen science approaches…

  • Die Sendung mit der Maus: Zu Fuß durch Deutschland

    Das HeiGIT unterstützt das Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) dabei eine Frage aus der “Die Maus”-Redaktion zu beantworten: Welcher ist Deutschlands nördlichster & südlichster Ort, und wie groß ist die fußläufige Distanz dazwischen? Der Beitrag war am 23.03.2019 in der “Frag doch mal die Maus Show” zu sehen. Wollen Sie wissen, wie weit es…

  • KinderUni 2019 with GIScience

    At Saturday the 23rd of March 2019, it was time again for very young researchers being introduced to GIScience. Melanie Eckle, Martin Hilljegerdes, Sven Lautenbach, Katharina Przybill, Leonie Schuchardt and Vivien Zahs introduced 16 highly motivated kids into GIScience as part of the KinderUni 2019. After an overview and an introduction into desktop mapping and…

  • Multisource and Multitemporal Data Fusion in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Review of the State of the Art

    The recent, sharp increase in the availability of data captured by different sensors, combined with their considerable heterogeneity, poses a serious challenge for the effective and efficient processing of remotely sensed data. Such an increase in remote sensing and ancillary data sets, however, opens up the possibility of utilizing multimodal data sets in a joint…

  • Preview: Spatial Joins using the OpenStreetMap History Database OSHDB

    Max is two and loves spending Monday afternoons with his Dad at the playground. Finding a suitable playground however isn’t easy, since a few criteria must be met: there should be a bench and some trees nearby to get shelter from the sun and an ice cream shop within the neighbourhood. Using the new spatial…

  • Call for State of the Map 2019 academic track is open

    The call for State of the Map 2019 (SOTM) academic track is now open until: 10th May 2019. Read more: https://2019.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/ tl;dr Please read the submission guidelines and submit your presentation proposal before May 10 to the submission form. This year’s State of the Map conference in Heidelberg will again feature a full day Academic Track session. Following…

  • GIScience at Kinderuni

    A GIScience Heidelberg team (Melanie Eckle, Katharina Przybill, Vivien Zahs, Martin Hilljegerdes and Sven Lautenbach) takes part in the Kinderuni 2019 coming Saturday. Our aim is to introduce giscience methods in a playful and hands-on way to the participating kids. We will introduce remote mapping, 3d pointclouds and much more in a scavenger hunt –…

  • openrouteservice Io

    openrouteservice Io is here! The openrouteservice from HeiGIT has just had its latest update, and we want to introduce you to Io (version 5.0). This new version brings something that has been a while in the making and will make things a lot easier when it comes to requesting information from the openrouteservice – a…

  • Global analyses are ohsome

    We, the Big Spatial Data Analytics Group at HeiGIT have ohsome news to share: From now on, you can send your requests to our global ohsome API instance. So far, we’ve had a public instance for Nepal and Germany, but now you can analyse OSM’s history globally. Additionally to the API, we also have a global dashboard instance. You choose any…