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Tag: Geodata

  • Abteilung Geoinformatik: Studentische Hilfskräfte GIS gesucht (auch Praktika)

    Die Abteilung Geoinformatik sucht Studentische Hilfskräfte zur Unterstützung in mehreren hoch aktuellen Forschungsbereichen in einem interdisziplinären dynamischen Team, u.a. z.B. für: Big Spatial Data Analytics z.B. OpenStreetMap History Analysen, Social Media Analytics etc. z.B.  http://ohsome.org Landnutzungsklassifikation auf Basis von OpenStreetMap, Satellitenbildern, etc. z.B. http://OSMlanduse.org Disaster-Management für humanitäre Hilfe (Geoinformatik für Katastrophenmanagement) z.B. MapSwipe Analytics etc. Intelligente…

  • “How to handle OpenStreetMap data” Workshop Heidelberg, Mai 18th

    OpenStreetMap has become a huge source for any kind of geographic information. In OpenStreetMap you now find not only street information, but also information related to buildings, shops, sights and in Heidelberg even to individual trees. Furthermore, OpenStreetMap data is open data – everyone is free to edit and to download the data to create own maps…

  • Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals through Geographic Information – First United Nations World Data Forum

    Last month GIScience Heidelberg (Prof. Zipf) participated in the First United Nations World Data Forum. This was a high level event including many organisations that generate and analyse data related to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For this we need a huge amount of data about…

  • GIScience at Fachaustausch Geoinformation 2016

    On November 24th, “Fachaustausch Geoinformation“, a networking  event  for professionals in the geodata and geoinformation domain, took place in Heidelberg. It is organised every year by GeoNet.MRN, bringing together people, companies and institutions from the Rhein-Neckar region and beyond who are active in GIS, geoinformatics and GIScience. As in previous yeas, the GIScience research group…

  • New Position in Health-GIS on Psychioepidemiology

    We offer a new position in the area of Health GIS. More Info here. Deadline: 08.Sept. 2013. Also check our other job offers. In this context we also offer topics for Master or Bachelor thesis.

  • Invitation to meet with regional cluster GeoNet.MRN

    The next meeting of the regional cluster GeoNet.MRN will take place in Heppenheim on 03.07.2013 (14.00h s.t.). Anybody interested in geoinformation is cordially invited – free of charge. Here you find the invitation letter (in German). Let’s come together!

  • #flood #hochwasser — Social Media and Disaster Mapping

    The current flood in Germany is the prominent proof: Social Media, Web 2.0 and Crowdsourcing play a more and more important role in organizing volunteers in humanitarian help. Crowdsouring has shown to be useful for collecting relevant geographical information in natural disasters. This is the very “on spot” topic of our current seminar on VGI…

  • Kick-Off Meeting in Project on Psychoepidemiology (HealthGIS, Psychogeography)

    On June 11 the Kick-Off Meeting for a new joint project on Psychoepidemiology took place at the Central Institute for Mental Health (ZI) in Mannheim. The goal of the joint project with researchers from the ZI, KIT, Dresden and the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg is to investigate relationships between social and environmental factors on the…