Author: Benjamin Herfort
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Disastermappers Workshop: Mobile Data Collection
Dear Students, Dear Colleagues, it’s time for another disastermappers workshop. And since the weather is so nice, we will go outside and learn something about mobile data collection! 🙂 When? 27.06.2018, 4 pm – 7 pm Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48 Data Collection in the field has always been important geographic information and today…
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Semester Start Mapathon with Kathmandu Living Labs
Dear Students, Mappers and Employees, we would like to invite you to the first mapathon, mapping party, mapswipeathon of this semester, which will be focusing on Nepal. (Just in time with the upcoming talk at the HGG on tuesday.) 😀 When? 07.05.2018, 6 pm Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48 Our mapathon is organized in…
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3D micro-mapping: Towards assessing the quality of crowdsourcing to support 3D point cloud analysis
Crowdsourcing has been widely applied to extract information from 2D geodata sources such as satellite imagery. In this new study published in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing we apply this technique to the growing field of 3D point cloud analysis. This work has been conducted in our 3D-MAPP Project which was funded…
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First State of the Map Tanzania was successful
The first State of Map Conference in Tanzania was organised by the tanzanian OSM community and the Ramani Huria Team based in Dar es Salaam from 8-10th December. The GIScience Research Group contributed to the program by introducing MapSwipe and organizing an workshop on OpenStreetMap and the use of QGIS. (Photo: @InnocentMaholi) The conference brought…
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HeiGIT and Disastermappers @ first State of the Map Tanzania
From this friday on the first state of the map conference in Tanzania will be held in Dar es Salaam. The members of our GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and the disastermappers heidelberg Marcel Reinmuth and Benjamin Herfort are participating and will organize a workshop on creating maps from OpenStreetMap data. The state of the map…
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Semester Start: OSM Ersti-Mapathon in Heidelberg
Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, We want to welcome the freshman students to Heidelberg University and start the new semester with our next mapathon! At our Ersti-mapathon we want to introduce everyone interested to OpenStreetMap mapping. Therefore, no previous knowledge is necessary. In addition our MapSwipe App will be presented. We will show how you can create geo…
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MapSwipe Live – View the latest contributions!
Many people asked us, whether it would be possible to see their own contributions to MapSwipe on the map. Therefore, in the last few days we worked on a small project to extend our MapSwipe Analytics page. The new “Live View” shows the latest contributions from the MapSwipe volunteers and functions similar to the show-me-the-way…
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Presentation and Demo Session on MapSwipe Analytics at MSF Scientific Days London
MSF Scientific Days is a conference organised by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) with a focus on research and innovation towards improving humanitarian actions. This years conference was held from May 19-20 at the Royal Society of Medicine in London and brought together more than 200 people. The presentations covered different aspects of medical treatment, but…
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3D-MAPP talk at 9th “Dresdner Flächennutzungsymposium”
The “Dresdner Flächennutzungssymposium” is an annual event aimed at fostering the discussions about current devolepment regarding land use changes in Germany. During two days experts from government agencies, private companies and research institutions come together and elaborate the latest trends in different session. This years symposium took place from May 3-4. Almost all presentations covered…
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HOT Board Election: Congratulations Melanie!
In the last week Melanie Eckle, who is working at the HeiGIT / GIScience Research Group Heidelberg, was elected as a Board Member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Congratulations Melanie! The newly elected Board Members Ahasanul Hoque, Pete Masters and Melanie Eckle will join Jorieke Vyncke and Dale Kunce. The Board is elected by HOT’s…
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10 Million Contributions: It’s time for MapSwipe Analytics!
The MapSwipe App is widely used by many volunteers who donate their time and brain capacity to find buildings or roads on satellite imagery. Just recently we counted the 10,000,000th contribution! After only 6 months since MapSwipe was launched! The outcome of these efforts are mainly used by humanitarian organisations like MSF, Netherlands Red Cross…