Posted in Call for papers, OSM, Press release on Nov 9th, 2019
Following the success of the Academic Track of State of the Map 2019, the track’s scientific committee - Dr. Yair Grinberger, until recently a member of the GIScience research group, Dr. Marco Minghini, Dr. Levente Juhász, Dr. Peter Mooney, and Dr. Godwin Yeboah - is organizing a special issue of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
The aim [...]
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Posted in Events, Teaching on Nov 9th, 2019
im Rahmen der Geography Awareness Week laden die Geographie-Fachschaften der Standorte Göttingen, Hannover, Würzburg und Heidelberg und die disastermappers heidelberg herzlich zum standortübergreifenden Mapathon ein!
An diesem Mapathon werden wir gemeinschaftlich mit Hilfe von OpenStreetMap und fernerkundlichen Methoden neue Kartendaten für vernachlässigte Krisenregionen erstellen und somit humanitäre Hilfsorganisationen in ihrer Arbeit unterstützen. Welches Gebiet genau kartiert [...]
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Posted in OSM, Press release, Research, VGI Group on Nov 4th, 2019
Recently a new DFG project proposal was accepted to the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg within the DFG priority programme VisVGI (Volunteered Geographic Information: Interpretation, Visualisation and Social Computing” [SPP 1894]). It is joint collaboration project together with Prof. Begüm Demir from TU Berlin.
IDEAL-VGI: Information Discovery from Big Earth Observation Data Archives by Learning from Volunteered [...]
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Posted in Events, OSM on Oct 31st, 2019
Over the last few days, Heidelberg’s first climathon event took place at EMBL, which was part of the global Climathon. The event ran from 25th-27th October 2019 with a 24 hour hackathon taking place on the 26th-27th. During the 24 hours developers, entrepreneurs, designers and students came together and worked as teams on 5 innovative [...]
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Posted in Events, OSM, VGI Group on Oct 21st, 2019
Am 28. und 29. Oktober findet in Berlin die jährliche Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge statt. In diesem Rahmen treffen sich erneut Expertinnen und Experten aus dem (inter) nationalen Katastrophenmanagement um sich zu neuesten Entwicklungen, Ideen und auch Herausforderungen in der Katastrophenvorsorge auszutauschen- zur Umsetzung des Sendai Rahmenwerks in Deutschland.
Wie im vorherigen Jahr, wird auch HeiGIT die Fachtagung [...]
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Posted in Events, OSM, Research, Teaching, VGI Group on Oct 7th, 2019
We cordially invite you to a Brownbag presentation by our Guest Researcher Dr. Jennings Anderson!
When? Tuesday, 8/10/2019, 1-2.30 pm
Where? Seminar room 15, INF 348
Jennings is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder exploring new approaches to analytical infrastructures for big, peer-produced geospatial datasets, specifically OpenStreetMap. His dissertation work involved designing contributor-centric research methods [...]
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Posted in Events on Sep 25th, 2019
Over the last few days, Heidelberg has been host to the annual HOT Summit and State of the Map conference with a combined attendance of over 800 people.
The HOT summit ran from the 19th-20th September and had over 200 attendees from more than 40 different countries. The SotM conference, running from the 21st to the [...]
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Posted in Events, Press release on Sep 21st, 2019
Über 500 Mitgestalter des ehrenamtlich erstellten Kartenwerks treffen
sich in Heidelberg. Ihr Motto: „Freie Projekte benötigen freie Daten“
Verkehrsminister Winfried Hermann: „Nachhaltige Mobilität und frei verfügbare Daten passen sehr gut zusammen“
Ein besonderes Beispiel der digitalen Mitgestaltung ist die OpenStreetMap (abgekürzt: OSM). Am Wochenende ist Heidelberg das Zentrum der OSM-Community. Vom 21. bis zum 23. September kommen [...]
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Posted in Events, Press release on Sep 18th, 2019
Presseeinladung 18.09.2019 (PDF Link hier)
Weltkonferenz für eine Freie Karte
Die Macher von OpenStreetMap treffen sich in Heidelberg
Universität Heidelberg und Verkehrsministerium Baden-Württemberg
unterstützen Initiative
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
hochwertiges digitales Kartenmaterial muss nicht kommerziell sein. Seit mittlerweile
15 Jahren zeigen die die Macher der OpenStreetMap (OSM), dass eine [...]
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We are delighted to invite you to join a workshop on open-source routing with time-dependent restrictions, see http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/2019/04/17/project-tardur-starts-open-source-routing-with-time-dependent-restrictions/.
The workshop is taking place on Friday before the State of the Map conference, 20th September 2019 in Heidelberg. It is free of charge and will last from 9:00 to 16:00 with a lunch break in between. Detailed [...]
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