News of Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group.
The Ohsome OSM history analytics platform, developed at HeiGIT, will be presented at the following conferences:
ISCRAM in Rochester, NY, USA (20th - 23rd of May)
In the short paper for the International Conference for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management we illustrate the specific potential of the ohsome platform for disaster activations by means of two relevant case [...]
The OpenStreetMap History Database (OSHDB) is the main data backend developed at HeiGIT for the ohsome OSM history analytics platform, that will make OSM’s history data more accessible for further analysis. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a rich resource of freely available geographic information. However, the possibilities for analyzing OSM data on a global scale are limited because of [...]
Posted in OSM, Publications, Services, VGI Group on Apr 4th, 2018
A paper for the Academic Track of the State of the Map Conference, Milan, has been accepted. We are looking forward to discuss with you following aspects:
A growing number of studies analyzes OSM data, its contributors, usage, and quality.
Such studies were mostly limited to analyzing either small samples of the OSM database or to simple [...]
Posted in OSM, Publications, VGI Group on Apr 2nd, 2018
Over the last years, the growing OpenStreetMap (OSM) database repeatedly proved its potential for various use cases, including disaster management. Disaster mapping activations show increasing contributions, but oftentimes raise questions related to the quality of the provided Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).
In order to better monitor and understand OSM mapping and data quality, HeiGIT developed a [...]
Posted in OSM, Services, Software, VGI Group on Mar 15th, 2018
The ohsome OpenStreetMap history analytics platform, which is currently developed at HeiGIT, will make OSM’s full-history data more easily accessible. We are pleased to announce that we are coming closer to reaching our objectives, hereby sharing a preview of the first ohsome web dashboard. Our dashboards will allow you to explore [...]
Posted in OSM, Research, Services, Software, VGI Group on Feb 22nd, 2018
The big spatial data analytics team at HeiGIT is currently developing the ohsome OpenStreetMap history analytics platform. Our aim is to make OSM’s full-history data more easily accessible for various kinds of data analytics tasks on a global scale.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a freely available map of the world to which everyone may contribute geographic information. [...]
Posted in Events on Feb 1st, 2018
Today you have the choice to select between two interesting GIS related events @Heidelberg with contributions by GIScience Group Heidelberg University:
Geobasierte Modelle. 14. Modellierungstag Rhein-Neckar am 1. Februar 2018 (in German, @Mathematikon HD, 14.00-18.00)
European Citizen Science Association Webinar on #citizenscience for monitoring urban landscape dynamics (in English, Online-Webinar, 16:30-17:30)
It’s your choice. Enjoy!
http://osmlanduse.org
http://ohsome.org
This week sees the 18th GEOINFO conference taking part in Salvador. It is the annual conference for exploring ongoing research, development and innovative applications on geographic information science in Brazil. Alexander Zipf is among the keynote speakers. In the special demo session he will highlight some of the OSM related web services for data quality assessment and [...]
As our HeiGIT / GIScience team member Martin Raifer (tyr_asd) pointed out at his OSM diary, this weekend is the 10 year anniversary of OSM’s API version 0.5. He stresses the importance of this as “This is the version of the OSM-API that introduced (among other things) the version number on all OSM objects, making [...]
Posted in Crowd Analyser, OSM, Publications, Services, VGI Group on Oct 4th, 2017
The comprehension of folksonomies is of high importance when making sense of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), in particular in the case of OpenStreetMap (OSM). So far, only little research has been conducted to understand the role and the evolution of folksonomies in VGI and OSM, which is despite the fact that without a comprehension of [...]