News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in Events on Jun 26th, 2017
Malaria is a major threat to people all around the world, particularly those most vulnerable: children and elderly. Our previous events Semester Start Missing Maps mapathon for World Malaria Day 2017 and Missing Maps Mapathon at Makerspace (DAI) aimed to support projects to identify potential malaria affected areas and enable better Malaria prevention in collaboration [...]
Posted in Events on May 4th, 2017
Following the example of the British, American and Netherland Red Cross, who are as the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg all members of Missing Maps and have been collaborating with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and our research group for a couple of years, the German Red Cross (GRC) organized their [...]
Posted in Events on Apr 28th, 2017
A big thank you to all the mappers that supported the fight against Malaria in our Semester Start Mapathon yesterday!
In three hours, buildings in an area of around 400 km² were mapped that can now be covered in the Clinton Health Access Initiave Malaria program.
Moreover, a TV team of SWR was visiting the event [...]
Posted in Events on Apr 18th, 2017
Every year, 400 000 people – especially children- die of Malaria, an actually curable disease. The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is working with governments worldwide to prevent, heal and control malaria (http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org).
Many regions of our world are not covered on a map. Maps are however an important tool for planning vaccination [...]
The MapSwipe App is widely used by many volunteers who donate their time and brain capacity to find buildings or roads on satellite imagery. Just recently we counted the 10,000,000th contribution! After only 6 months since MapSwipe was launched!
The outcome of these efforts are mainly used by humanitarian organisations like MSF, Netherlands Red Cross or [...]
Posted in Events on Mar 7th, 2017
Many regions of our world are not covered on a map. Maps are however an important tool for planning vaccination campaigns and for ensuring medical supplies. Places that are not covered in a map are in many cases nonexistent for authorities and other organizations. We want to change this situation - with your help- and [...]
Posted in Events, Press release on Jan 30th, 2017
Last week we had a special guest for our New Years Mapathon: Nadja Schlüter, a journalist of the popular youth magazine “Jetzt” of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nadja had heard about the Missing Maps related activities at our institute during an interview with MSF UK and visited us to learn more about our work and disaster [...]
Posted in Events on Jan 9th, 2017
We want to welcome the year 2017 with a mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil!
When: 19.01.2017, 18:00
Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48
This time we will focus on Aweil, the capital of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The region is home to tens of thousands of people, many of whom live on the [...]
Posted in Events on Dec 17th, 2016
On Thursday, 08.12.2016, a Christmas mapping party took place at the Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University. Karakol, a city in the Kyrgyz Republic was herein mapped in cooperation with the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam).
Supported by the World Bank, the Bishkek-based Central Asian Institute of Applied Science (CAIAG) and the GFZ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2016
Dear Mapping Enthusiasts,
in the upcoming week we want to invite you to our last Mapathon of the year 2016!
When: 08.12.2016, 18:00
Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48
In this mapping event we will map buildings and other infrastructures in Karakol, the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, which is located in a seismically active area of [...]