Author: GIScience HD
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Exploring Geography with the Geographers of Tomorrow- Kinderuni Heidelberg at GIScience
For the fourth time, GIScience/HeiGIT supported the Kinderuni of Heidelberg University. Last Saturday, 03.03.2018, interested children between 9-12 were invited to join members of the group and learn about the various kinds of work of geographers, and current projects at GIScience. After providing an overview of geography and different kinds of geodata, the young participants…
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Colloquium: New observations of urban climates – remote sensing and crowd sourcing, Dr. B. Bechtel
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Dr. Benjamin Bechtel from the Institute of Geography / Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg www.clisap.de cen.uni-hamburg.de When: Thursday 08.03.2018, 14ct Where: INF 348, room015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Abstract: New observations of urban climates –…
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Reminder Deadline 30.03.2018: 2nd CFP – VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE, Lund.
VGI-ALIVE – AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement Tuesday 12th June 2018, Lund, Sweden, Workshop at AGILE 2018 Introduction to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop The steady rise of data volume shared on already established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods of user contribution patterns, leads to continued challenges in data fusion, and…
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GESIS Top Publication 2017
One of our recent publications (Bluemke, Resch, Lechner, Westerholt and Kolb 2017) was elected the “top publication 2017” for the research field of “research data management” at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS). The paper discusses methodological challenges common to both survey research and GIScience, and is expected to serve as the starting…
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Avoiding Countries, Fetching Population Statistics and Responding in GeoJSON with Openrouteservice!
Restricting Borders in openrouteservice Have you ever wanted to route between countries in Europe but only cross Schengen borders? Or maybe route from Detroit to Buffalo without crossing into Canada? Well now with openrouteservice you can! With the introduction of the new border crossing restrictions feature on driving profiles, you can tell the openrouteservice API to…
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Colloquium presentation on Causal-statistical models to detect and predict spatio-temporal developments and tendencies
While the semester already has ended, we still cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk. Just for a change, this time it is on – Tuesday Feb. 27th on 13:15p, – in the Lecture hall, Room 015, INF 348, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University. Julian Bruns from FZI Karlsruhe / KIT will give…
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Introducing the ohsome OSM History Analytics Platform
The big spatial data analytics team at HeiGIT is currently developing the ohsome OpenStreetMap history analytics platform. Our aim is to make OSM’s full-history data more easily accessible for various kinds of data analytics tasks on a global scale. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a freely available map of the world to which everyone may contribute geographic…
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Ending the semester with GIScience colloquium discussions
The winter semester 2017/2018 just has ended last week at Heidelberg University. The final GIScience colloquium presentation was given by Ross Purves (University of Zurich). After his talk we had a good discussion with members of the GIScience Research Group about VGI research and beyond. Looking forward to continue this soon. Stay tuned for the…
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Enrichment of OpenStreetMap Data Completeness with Sidewalk Geometries for Wheelchair Routing
Tailored routing and navigation services utilized by wheelchair users (such as provided by OpenRouteService.org ) require certain information about sidewalk geometries and their attributes to execute efficiently. Except some minor regions/cities, such detailed information is often not sufficiently present in current versions of crowdsourced mapping databases including OpenStreetMap. In a recent study (1) we aim…
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CFP: ISPRS IJGI Special Issue “Volunteered Geographic Information: AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement (VGI-ALIVE)”
Call for Papers: ISPRS IJGI Special Issue “Volunteered Geographic Information: AnaLysis, Integration, Vision, Engagement (VGI-ALIVE)” A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2018 The steady rise of data volume shared on already-established and new Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms calls for advanced analysis methods…
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Abteilung Geoinformatik: Studentische Hilfskräfte GIS gesucht (auch Praktika)
Die Abteilung Geoinformatik sucht Studentische Hilfskräfte zur Unterstützung in mehreren hoch aktuellen Forschungsbereichen in einem interdisziplinären dynamischen Team, u.a. z.B. für: Big Spatial Data Analytics z.B. OpenStreetMap History Analysen, Social Media Analytics etc. z.B. http://ohsome.org Landnutzungsklassifikation auf Basis von OpenStreetMap, Satellitenbildern, etc. z.B. http://OSMlanduse.org Disaster-Management für humanitäre Hilfe (Geoinformatik für Katastrophenmanagement) z.B. MapSwipe Analytics etc. Intelligente…
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Citizen Science for Big Earth Observation Data Analytics in Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring: From Scope to Future Directions
A new abstract has been accepted at EGU about Citizen Science for Big Earth Observation Data Analytics in Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring: From Scope to Future Directions in the Session Citizen Science in the Era of Big Data at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2018 Vienna | Austria | 8–13 April 2018…