Wie komme ich als Rollstuhlfahrerin oder Rollstuhlfahrer am besten vom Bismarckplatz zum Rathaus? Welche Wege ohne Hindernisse können Eltern mit Kinderwagen nutzen? Helfen soll dabei ein neuer Routenplaner der Stadt Heidelberg. Der Routenplaner basiert auf dem OpenRouteService der Abteilung Geoinformatik der Universität Heidelberg und wurde in einem gemeinsamen vom Ministerium für Inneres, Digitalisierung und Migration Baden-Württemberg geförderten [...]
Tag Archive 'OpenStreetMap'
HeiGIT/GIScience Research Group is looking forward to present our latest research, services and developments at the HOT Summit/ FOSS4G in beautiful Dar es Salaam. Sabrina Marx and Melanie Eckle of the Geoinformation for Humanitarian Aid group will provide an overview of our latest projects and ideas, and current collaborative projects with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.
Sabrina [...]
Deep Learning from Multiple Crowds: A Case Study of Humanitarian Mapping
Posted in Publications on Aug 16th, 2018
Satellite images are widely applied in humanitarian mapping which labels buildings, roads and so on for humanitarian aid and economic development. However, the labeling now is mostly done by volunteers. In a recently accepted study, we utilize deep learning to solve humanitarian mapping tasks of a mobile software named MapSwipe. The current deep learning techniques [...]
New Jupyter Notebook: Analysis of Access to Health Care using OpenRouteService Isochrones API
Posted in OSM, Research, Services, VGI Group on Aug 1st, 2018
We published a new jupyter notebook which depicts how to use the OpenRouteService Isochrones API to analyse health care acessibility in Madagascar.
In the case of a disaster (natural or man made), a country is not only affected by the intensity of the disaster but also by it’s own vulnerability to it. Countries have different kind [...]
State of the Map 2019 is coming to Heidelberg
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 30th, 2018
Maps, maps, maps! After a great state of the map conference in Milan, the OpenStreetMap community can already get excited for the next global gathering in 2019:
We are very honored to have been selected to welcome the global OSM community in Heidelberg in 2019!
The good news have been shared during the closing ceremony of the [...]
A new infrastructure for exploring and analyzing OpenStreetMap
Posted in External Projects, OSM, Publications, Research, Software, VGI Group on Jul 7th, 2018
Ever wondered how you can generate/use some meta-information about OpenStreetMap for your project? Are you interested in visualizing different aspects of OpenStreetMap data?
In the article below, we present a server infrastructure to collect and process data about different aspects of OpenStreetMap. The resulting data are offered publicly in a common container format, which fosters the [...]
Your support for MAnnheimer MAPAthons (MAMAPA)
Posted in Events, External Projects on Jun 4th, 2018
Beginning of May the recently launched MAMAPA project reached yet another milestone. Four very successful MAMAPA mapathons were already organized in the Mannheimer Abendakademie, supported by CartONG, HeiGIT/ disastermappers heidelberg and local tandems, and there are hopefully many more to come… To build a sustainable future for the MAMAPA project, members of HeiGIT, CartONG and [...]
Nama Budhathoki (Kathmandu Living Labs) visit at GIScience/ HeiGIT- The power of civic tech or how to connect data, GIS technology and people
Posted in Events on Apr 5th, 2018
Just before the Easter holidays, our GIScience/HeiGIT team hosted Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki, Executive Director of Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL), to take our existing collaboration to the next level.
KLL and GIScience/HeiGIT have collaborated in various projects in the last few years. GIScience/HeiGIT have contributed to OSM data of Nepal through mapathons in Heidelberg. Relevant contents [...]
Workshop with Wikimedia on Disaster Management: Connecting Humanitarian Actors, Research and Digital Volunteer Communities
Posted in Events, External Projects on Mar 28th, 2018
Over the last couple of years a new group of actors has become increasingly important to support disaster management - digital volunteers. They support disaster responses and humanitarian activities from all over the world. Crowdsourced Wikipedia articles are oftentimes the first source of information people read to learn more about a disaster. Likewise, the OpenStreetMap [...]
Colloquium: Production and use of information during emergencies: Experience from 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Posted in Events on Mar 22nd, 2018
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk
The speaker is Dr. Nama Budhathoki
Executive Director of Kathmandu Living Labs
When: Monday 26.03.2018, 14:00 st
Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University)
Abstract:
Production and use of information during emergencies: Experience from 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Information is one of the most critical infrastructures in times of [...]