Welcome back to the ohsome region of the month format where you can learn and get inspiration about potential applications of the ohsome API. This time we looked at forest-related information in four different Canadian regions looking for the green region of the month, which means there will be a winner announced at the end [...]
Tag Archive 'python'
ohsome-py: Python Package for OSM history analytics published
Posted in Press release, Services, Software, Teaching on Apr 1st, 2021
As a little Easter present, we published the first version of the ohsome-py Python package today. ohsome-py helps you extract and analyse OpenStreetMap history data using the ohsome API and Python. It handles queries to the ohsome API and converts its responses to Pandas or GeoPandas data frames to facilitate easy data handling and analysis. [...]
HELIOS++ 1.0.0 Software & Preprint Release
Posted in 3D, Digital Earth, Lidar Group, Publications, Research, Software on Jan 26th, 2021
The 3DGeo Research Group is proud to announce the release of their novel ray-tracing based laser scanning simulator HELIOS++!
HELIOS++ is a general-purpose simulation software for virtual laser scanning data acquisition. Such data can be used to complement real data in many use cases. Some examples include the generation of training data for machine learning, especially [...]
Digital Teaching Award featured in Magazine of Heidelberg University
Posted in Lidar Group, Press release, Research, TdLab Geography, Teaching on Nov 3rd, 2020
The digital teaching prize by Heidelberg University that was awarded to two members of our institute is featured in a current special edition of the university’s magazine UNISPIEGEL:
Find the full article on “Adjustment to digital formats” (translation by the author) on page 2 of the magazine here (in German). Information on the awardees Dr. Nicole [...]
Digital teaching prize awarded by Heidelberg University
Posted in 3D, Events, Lidar Group, TdLab Geography, Teaching on Oct 22nd, 2020
In recognition of the high efforts of lecturers in the past summer semester, the rectorate of Heidelberg University awarded prizes for digital teaching. Two of in total six prizes were awarded to lecturers at the Institute of Geography, which shows the positive recognition of the past semester’s endeavors both from the side of students and [...]
E-TRAINEE project: E-learning course on Time Series Analysis in Remote Sensing
Posted in 3D, Lidar Group, Research, Teaching on Oct 10th, 2020
The E-TRAINEE project is a new collaboration project for developing an “E-learning course on Time Series Analysis in Remote Sensing for Understanding Human-Environment Interactions” with Markéta Potůčková (Department of Applied Geoinformatics and Cartography, Charles University Prague) as PI of the project and Heidelberg University, University of Innsbruck and University of Warsaw as project partners. The [...]
As promised we offer some more examples on how to use Openrouteservice for some applications. In this notebook example, we’d like to showcase one way to go about finding an apartment based on OSM data. We’ll using different openrouteservice API’s to help you look for an apartment.
Here is the full example with code and interactive [...]
Openrouteservice-py now available on PyPi - Easy Routing, Geocoding, Isochrones and Matrix Routing with Python!
Posted in Services on Feb 3rd, 2018
We have finally developed a pretty handy python API for all of you pythoniasts out there. This library makes requests to the openrouteservice API extremely simple. With this you will be able to query the following services with a couple of lines of python code.
directions
matrix
geocoding
isochrones
To provide a quick and dirty example::
import openrouteservice
coords = ((8.34234,48.23424),(8.34423,48.26424))
client = [...]