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  • Coupling maximum entropy modeling with geotagged social media data to determine the geographic distribution of tourists

    Modeling the geographic distribution of tourists at a tourist destination is crucial when it comes to enhancing the destination’s resilience to disasters and crises, as it enables the efficient allocation of limited resources to precise geographic locations. Seldom have existing studies explored the geographic distribution of tourists through understanding the mechanisms behind it. In a…

  • Last reminder: Call for papers PLATIAL’18

    Our PLATIAL’18 workshop on place-based analysis in September is approaching quickly, and so is the submission deadline. Please be aware that the call closes next week: Wednesday, 25 July 2018, 11.59 pm (CEST) Looking forward to your valuable submissions and participation!

  • EU Sentinel 2 osmlanduse.org fusion @ Toulouse Space show

    Another chapter in machine human fusion land use device narrative: new Sentinel 2 osmlanduse.org product results based on OpenStreetMap plus Sentinel 2 data plus Machine Learning were presented at ToulouseSpaceShow 2018 during a European Space Agency (ESA) Research and User Support (RUS) event. Stay tuned: The new product will soon be available for all EU…

  • FOSS4G-Europe: Presentation about supporting personalised pedestrian and wheelchair navigation based on open source and open data in Openrouteservice

    FOSS4G Europe as the European community event on free and open source gis is taking place this week July 16 to 20th, 2018 in Guimarães Portugal. A. Zipf is giving a talk about supporting personalised pedestrian routing options (like healthy and quiet routing) as well as wheelchair routing and navigation based on open source and open…

  • Successfull PhD Defence of GIScience Group Member Julian Bruns

    Our GIScience Research Group team member Julian Bruns has recently defended his PhD at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) at the FZI in the project BigGIS. Congratulations Julian, well done! The topic of the thesis was “Robust Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Dependencies and Hot Spots” at the Institut für Informationswirtschaft und Marketing at KIT.

  • Colloquium on Open Source Foundations for Spatial Decisions Support Systems

    We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Prof. Jochen Albrecht Professor of Computational and Theoretical Geography, Hunter College, City University of New York When: Monday 16.07.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Open Source Foundations for Spatial Decisions Support Systems Spatial Decision Support…

  • AGIT30 was ohsome (and awesome)

    Members of the HeiGIT team were presenting parts of our work at this years AGIT/GI_Forum conference in Salzburg, Austria (as already announced in a previous blogpost). Julian Bruns was presenting the results of a joint work with the KIT and his old employer, the FZI, which is published in the GI-Forum journal (English conference running in parallel to the…

  • A new infrastructure for exploring and analyzing OpenStreetMap

    Ever wondered how you can generate/use some meta-information about OpenStreetMap for your project? Are you interested in visualizing different aspects of OpenStreetMap data? In the article below, we present a server infrastructure to collect and process data about different aspects of OpenStreetMap. The resulting data are offered publicly in a common container format, which fosters…

  • Deadline extended to July 25: PLATIAL 2018, Heidelberg University

    Because of several requests the deadline for short papers has been extended to Wed. July 25 2018. The recent availability of user-generated geographic datasets allows gaining novel insights into otherwise hardly observable societal phenomena. Geosocial media forms one important source of user-generated information, which partly describes the everyday lives of people. The analysis of these…

  • Colloquium on Big spatio-temporal data analysis based on social sensing

    We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Prof. Jiangya Gong Dean, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China When: Monday 09.07.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Big spatio-temporal data analysis based on social sensing With the rapid development of…

  • 1 Million ways to download OpenStreetMap data workshop

    OpenStreetMap has become a huge source for any kind of geographic information. In OpenStreetMap you now find not only street information, but also information related to buildings, shops, sights and in Heidelberg even to individual trees. Furthermore, OpenStreetMap data is open data – everyone is free to edit and to download the data to create own…

  • Successful PhD Defence by René Westerholt on The Analysis of Spatially Superimposed and Heterogeneous Random Variables Using the Example of Geosocial Media Data

    This week our GIScience Heidelberg team member Rene Westerholt most successfully defended his PhD! Congratulations! Very well deserved! The thesis is located at the interface between spatial analysis methodology and the characteristics of spatially superimposed random variables. Three types of contributions are presented: (i) the interactions of spatial analysis techniques with spatially superimposed random variables…