Tag: OpenSteetMap
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Analyse HOT Tasking Manager Projects with the ohsome API
Have a look at our new Jupyter notebook which provides a step-by-step introduction how to use the ohsome API. We show you how to analyse the OSM mapping efforts related to a HOT Tasking Manager project in Nepal. The analyzed project 1008 “Nepal Earthquake, 2015, IDP Camps in Kathmandu” was created by Kathmandu Living Labs…
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Third successful Wheelmap event with volunteers of SAP at Heidelberg
On Monday 09 October 2017 the GIScience group of Heidelberg university organised another Wheelmap mapping event for SAP volunteers in the course of the “SAP month of service“. Volunteers of SAP already supported the CAP4Access team in merging volunteered accessibility data (from Wheelmap.org) and expert accessibility data (from Heidelberg Hürdenlos) two years ago and by…
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HeiGIT/GIScience at annual HOT and Missing Maps events in Canada
Canada- picturesque mountains, craggy-coasts, vast untouched landscapes, diverse cultures- and a country that is increasingly supporting the use of open data. In this vein, last week the capital of Canada became a place for exchange, knowledge sharing and awareness building all around the use of open data to support humanitarian and disaster related purposes. The…
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“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…
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Semester Start Missing Maps mapathon for World Malaria Day 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 campaigns and…
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OSMlanduse.org is featured image of the week in this weeks OSM Wiki
Recently we introduced the website OSMlanduse.org . This week it is featured as “Image of the Week” in the OSM Wiki. Thanks a lot for the recognition! It is already the second OSM Wiki image of the week from GIScience Heidelberg in this short year,as in week 4 OSMvis from our group member Franz-Benjamin was…
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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…
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Mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil
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…
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OSM GeoWeek contributions from Heidelberg to support climate change preparedness programs
In the context of the international OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week, last Thursay, 17th November 2016, another mapping event was organized at the Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University. Sava, a region in the north of Madagascar, was herein mapped in cooperation with Missing Maps and the French NGO CartONG. Madagascar is as one of the poorest…