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Month: October 2017

  • Missing Maps mapathon to support OSM GeoWeek

    Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, November 12th-18th is the international OpenStreetMap GeoWeek. Since 1987, in the third week of November all around the world different kind of projects and activities are planned to raise awareness about the significance of geography and spatial data and how we affect and are affected by it. This year we celebrate the…

  • The impacts of environmental factors on cycling behavior

    As it is widely accepted, cycling tends to produce health benefits and reduce air pollution. Policymakers encourage people to use bikes by improving cycling facilities as well as developing bicycle-sharing systems (BSS). It is interesting to investigate how environmental factors influence the cycling behavior of users of bicycle-sharing systems, as users of bicycle-sharing systems tend…

  • GIScience News Blog Heidelberg among Top 60 GIS Blogs and Websites about Geographic Information Systems

    Recently Feedspot selected our GIScience News Blog Heidelberg http://giscience.uni-hd.de for the “top blogs in GIS” list. The Feedspot list is the most comprehensive list of Top 60 GIS Blogs on the internet. Thank you very much! We are happy to serve you with further most recent information about GIS research and related developments. You can…

  • New paper on the integration of geographic information into survey research

    We recently published a new paper on the integration of geographic information into survey research. The paper is the outcome of a collaborative effort with colleagues from the Leibnitz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) in Mannheim and from the University of Salzburg (Z_GIS) and it provides an overview of how the consideration of geographic…

  • Climate Protection Map Germany is Online – Share your knowledge about renewable energies and sustainability on OpenStreetMap

    The Klimaschutzkarte Deutschland (Climate Protection Map Germany, www.Klimaschutzkarte.de) makes it easy to retrieve relevant information on the topics of energy and sustainability and to locate them in geographic space. The Climate Protection Map of Germany uses the possibilities of web technologies and is based on user-contributed data from OpenStreetMap to allow interested citizens to find out…

  • Mobile low-cost 3D camera maize crop height measurements under field conditions

    Maps of the spatial distribution of crop heights can strongly support agriculture in terms of efficiency and yield optimization. Recently published results of experiments of the 3D Spatial Data Processing research group describe an approach to easily extend regular agricultural machines with low-cost sensors for capturing crop heights while the machine is in the field.…

  • 2nd CFP Special Issue: “Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics”, Deadline End of Nov 2017, Open Access by Taylor & Francis, no publishing costs

    Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics Aims and Scope Modern mobile devices are pervasively equipped with embedded sensors and cameras, and allow the positioning of media contents within geographic space. In combination with the Web 2.0 paradigm, this has led to the crowdsourcing approach, which in turn has become an important data acquisition technique. It is now…

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings by Andreas Wichmann

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings with Complex Roof Shapes Andreas Wichmann Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technische Universität Berlin Time and date: Mon, October 23, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University Digital 3D city models are of…

  • Openrouteservice partners with German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) and releases new features

    We are proud to announce our partnership with the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy [German: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)] which is the central service provider of topographic data, cartography, and geodetic reference systems for the German government. The agency works under the Federal Ministry of the Interior, with specialist departments in…

  • GIScience welcomes New Master Students

    Yesterday, GIScience Heidelberg was welcoming our new master students. After a general introduction into our teaching philosophy, our core courses and our institutes (HeiGIT, HCE, IWR), we were giving insights into the  specialization in GIScience/Geoinformatics, which is possible in the Geography Master Programme. As our teaching is research-based and research-oriented we were presenting most recent…

  • Third successful Wheelmap event with volunteers of SAP at Heidelberg

    On Monday 09 October 2017 the GIScience group of Heidelberg university organised another Wheelmap mapping event for SAP volunteers in the course of the “SAP month of service“. Volunteers of SAP already supported the CAP4Access team in merging volunteered accessibility data (from Wheelmap.org) and expert accessibility data (from Heidelberg Hürdenlos) two years ago and by…

  • Yet another GIScience Group Photo

    This monday the nice weather was reason enough to have another spontaneous GIScience HD group photo after the jour fixé. And well, as often indeed there are a number of new faces, too 🙂 “The only thing constant in life is change” Feel welcome and enjoy!