Author: GIScience HD
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New “Robert and Christine Danziger PhD Scholarships“ 2022 in Geoinformatics at GIScience Heidelberg University for PhD students from Africa – DL 15.July
It is our great pleasure to inform about the new “Robert and Christine Danziger Scholarships“ 2022 for doing a PhD in Geoinformatics at Heidelberg University. Please make yourself familiar with the research topics at GIScience Heidelberg and HeiGIT (e.g. projects, papers) when suggesting potential topics for your PhD research. Short facts: The Robert and Christine Danziger Scholarship is awarded to very…
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HGG Vortrag: “Großmacht Russland? Geographien der Transformation im Bereich der ehemaligen Sowjetunion” , Dienstag 10.05.22, 10ct
Hiermit möchte wir Sie herzlich zum HGG Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Daniel Göler (Universität Bamberg): “Großmacht Russland? Geographien der Transformation im Bereich der ehemaligen Sowjetunion” einladen. Der Vortrag findet am Dienstag (10.05.2022) um 19:15 Uhr im kleinen Hörsaal des KIPs (INF 227) der Universität Heidelberg statt. hgg.urz.uni-heidelberg.de Mehr als 30 Jahre nach der Selbstauflösung der…
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ohsome Region of the month – Back on trail
Welcome back to our Region of the Month series. If you’re hearing about this format the first time you should definitely check out some of our older blog posts, e.g. this one on the tagged forests of different places in Canada or this first part of a street network analysis! Since it’s May and getting warmer again,…
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Improving OpenStreetMap missing building detection using few-shot transfer learning in sub- Saharan Africa
OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been intensively used to support humanitarian aid activities, especially in the Global South. Its data availability in the Global South has been greatly improved via recent humanitarian mapping campaigns. However, large rural areas are still incompletely mapped. The timely provision of map data is often essential for the work of humanitarian actors…
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Räumliche Daten für die Gesellschaft – HeiGIT in die Zukunft geführt
Unterführungen, Treppen und hohe Bordsteinkanten sind für Menschen mit Gehbeeinträchtigungen eine große Herausforderung. Ein maßgeschneiderter Routenplaner kann aber ihre Mobilität erhöhen, indem er Wege mit möglichst wenigen Hindernissen berechnet. Dieses Beispiel zeigt, wie Geoinformationstechnologie und Geoinformatik speziellen Gruppen in der Gesellschaft ganz konkret helfen. HeiGIT, das Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology, entwickelt nicht nur passgenaue…
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Online seminar ‘Deep learning from Volunteered Geographical Information: a case study of humanitarian mapping with OpenStreetMap’
We invite to the upcoming online seminar at the Urban Analytics Lab seminar series at the National University of Singapore (NUS): ‘Deep learning from Volunteered Geographical Information: a case study of humanitarian mapping with OpenStreetMap’ on 29 April (9am German time, 3pm Singapore time) By Hao Li, GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University @GIScienceHD As an emerging topic,…
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Zooming-in for climate action—hyperlocal greenhouse gas data for mitigation action?
While the international community has made progress in adopting goals and agreements in the field of climate change mitigation, efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are significantly lacking behind global ambitions for acceptable climate change. In a recently published perspective in the journal Climate Action, we discuss whether a window of opportunity for more…
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Mittwoch, 6.4.2022: Mamapa Vortrag und Diskussion zu “Humanitäre Kartographie mit OpenStreetMap” im Rahmen der Internationale Wochen gegen Rassismus 2022
Welcher Beitrag kann durch das Kartieren in OpenStreetMap zu humanitären Projekten geleistet werden? Und welche Möglichkeiten gibt es um sich mit anderen Gleichgesinnten in der Region Heidelberg und Mannheim, aber auch global zu vernetzen zum Thema humanitäre Kartographie? Diese Fragen werden am Mittwoch, 6.4.2022, im Rahmen der “Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus 2022” (Seite 51 im…
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Where to map in OpenStreetMap next? Experiences from Mozambique, India, and Tonga
OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been intensively used to support humanitarian aid activities, especially in the Global South. Its data availability in the Global South has been greatly improved via recent humanitarian mapping campaigns and due to the efforts of local communities. However, large rural areas are still incompletely mapped. The timely provision of map data is…
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GIScience/HeiGIT und DRK gemeinsam im CHAtroom – Im Podcast werden die Zusammenarbeit und das Sketch Map Tool vorgestellt
Anne Tritschler vom Centre for Humanitarian Action (CHA) spricht im Podcast CHAtroom mit Dr. Carolin Klonner (GIScience) und Dr. Natascha Bing (DRK) über den Einsatz von Geoinformationen in der humanitären Hilfe und welche Rolle dabei Karten, vor allem partizipatives Mapping, spielen. Lokales Wissen ist eine wichtige Informationsquelle, die in der Katastrophenvorsorge immer mehr zum Einsatz…
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ohsome Region of the Month – Mapping of pandemic related facilities
At long last, welcome back to out Region of the Month-series, where we look at different regions in the world and how tags are used there. Today we would like to look at Covid 19 related OpenStreetMap tags in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. More specifically, we would like to look at test stations and vaccination centers and…
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How to become ohsome part 12 – Using length and area as a predefined filter
Hello and welcome back to part 12 of our “How to become ohsome“-blog post series! If you’re new to this series, check out other blog posts of the series as well, in order to learn how you too, can become ohsome using the ohsome API! This time, we want to take a closer look at the filter options area…