News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
Posted in OSM, Services, Software, VGI Group on Mar 22nd, 2019
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 [...]
Posted in Events, Press release on Mar 20th, 2019
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 on from the [...]
Posted in OSM, Press release, Services, Software, Traffic on Mar 11th, 2019
Problemstellung
Bis dato wird eine wichtige Eigenschaft infrastruktureller Straßennetzdaten wie OSM in noch keiner frei verfügbaren Routing Anwendung voll ausgenutzt: zeitliche Restriktionen auf Straßen und Wegen, wie etwa tageszeit- oder saisonale Fahrbahnbeschränkungen. Dies ist unter anderem für Transport-Logistik-Firmen für ein effizientes Flottenmanagement (z.B. zeitlich variable Fahrverbote für Lastkraftwagen) von Bedeutung, aber auch im Hinblick auf eine Zukunft [...]
Posted in Digital Humanities, OSM, Research, VGI Group on Mar 7th, 2019
Recently, earth observation by satellites has shown great capability in supporting a range of challenges such as disaster assessment, agriculture monitoring, and humanitarian mapping. MapSwipe, as a humanitarian mapping app, provides a crowdsourcing platform to collect volunteered geographical information (VGI), in order to generate the demanding base map of human settlements for better planning of [...]
Posted in Events, External Projects on Mar 6th, 2019
Bereit seit den 1960ern werden von den Vereinten Nationen initiiert und von den UN-Mitgliedsländern zunehmend unterstützt, jährlich Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus zum Thema Integration, Austausch und Bewusstsein gegen Rassismus organisiert. Vom 11. bis zum 24. März finden gemäß dem Motto „Europa wählt Menschenwürde“ Konzerte, Lesungen, Workshops usw. statt, um “den nationalistischen, rassistischen [...]
In the GIScience research group at Heidelberg University, a recent PhD research project by Clemens Jacobs has been looking into the data quality of citizen science observations of organisms. This research aims at using geographic context as an information source for estimating the plausibility of an observation, e.g., of a bird, which was reported to [...]
The exploration of the history of OpenStreetMap data presents an important step to uncover semantic connections, regions of interest and their contiguity in time and space at varying scales. Therefore, the HeiGIT Big Spatial Data Analytics team presents a first beta version of the new OpenStreetMap History eXplorer (ohsomeHeX). It resembles the idea of the OSMatrix¹, [...]
Posted in Events on Jan 14th, 2019
State of the Map 2019 conference will be held in Heidelberg, September 21-23 2019.
Interested in sponsoring?
Want to help build bridges through scholarships?
Sponsorship packages are available at
https://2019.stateofthemap.org/Sponsorship2019.pdf
Posted in Events on Jan 8th, 2019
State of the Map is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. Enjoy three days in Heidelberg with talks, discussions, workshops, code and documentation sprints all around the free and open map of the world.
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Posted in OSM, Services, Software, VGI Group on Dec 17th, 2018
In a previous blog post we performed a conceptual compliance analysis between OSM data and several tagging-guidelines using the OSHDB API. The results were visualized in a line chart, comparing the different compliance ratio over several months. The following analysis focuses on a spatial representation of the conceptual compliance. It is [...]