Author: GIScience HD
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Openrouteservice-py now available on PyPi – Easy Routing, Geocoding, Isochrones and Matrix Routing with Python!
We have finally developed a pretty handy python API for all of you pythoniasts out there. This library makes requests to the openrouteservice API extremely simple. With this you will be able to query the following services with a couple of lines of python code. directions matrix geocoding isochrones To provide a quick and dirty…
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Today Two free GIS Events @Heidelberg
Today you have the choice to select between two interesting GIS related events @Heidelberg with contributions by GIScience Group Heidelberg University: Geobasierte Modelle. 14. Modellierungstag Rhein-Neckar am 1. Februar 2018 (in German, @Mathematikon HD, 14.00-18.00) European Citizen Science Association Webinar on #citizenscience for monitoring urban landscape dynamics (in English, Online-Webinar, 16:30-17:30) It’s your choice. Enjoy!…
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CFP: VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE 2018, Lund, Sweden
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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ECSA Webinar on #citizenscience for monitoring urban landscape dynamics with GIScience Heidelberg
Join the next ECSA webinar on “Citizen Science for monitoring urban landscape dynamics”! The European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) will host a webinar on the topic of “Citizen Science for monitoring urban landscape dynamics”. The webinar will include two talks: Assessing urban green space in Vienna (by Gebhard Banko and Barbara Birli from the Austrian Environmental…
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Colloquium Presentation on Delineating and Describing Landscapes and Landform Elements (Prof. Ross Purves)
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Delineating and describing landscapes and landform elements: challenges and novel methodological approaches Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Head of Geocomputation Unit, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Time and date: Mon, January 29, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University…
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Open Position: Software Developer Geoinformation Technology , Heidelberg
Open Position: Software Developer (Web) Geoinformation Technology (OSM) Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) and GIScience Research Group In the context of research projects at HeiGIT and the GIScience Research Group we offer the position of a Software Developer Geoinformation Technology in Heidelberg (full-time or part-time). Depending on your experience the tasks are related to…
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ORS NEWS: more frequent updates, new GPX response, snapping tolerance
Updating the ORS routing graph… frequently! We’re very happy to announce two more important core features for our services: Weekly OSM planet.pbf update! md5 checksum included in response! How old is the OpenStreetMap planet file which was used to build the openrouteservice road network? This is a question many of you have asked over the past. To…
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Colloquium Presentation on Context-Aware Movement Analysis (Dr. Mohammad Sharif)
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Context-Aware Movement Analysis: An Application to Similarity Search of Trajectories Dr. Mohammad Sharif Department of Geographic Information Systems, Faculty of Geomatics Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Time and date: Mon, January 22, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department…
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OSMlanduse.org + Remote Sensing = New conterminous land use data set for Germany released – filling gaps in OSM through machine learning
Land use data created by humans (OSM) was fused with satellite remote sensing data, resulting in a conterminous land use data set without gaps. The first version is now available for all Germany at OSMlanduse.org. When human input (OSM data) was absent a machine generated missing land use information learning from human inputs and using…
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Love Maths? – GIScience HD visits “MatheLiebe” Exhibition Heidelberg
This week the GIScience research group Heidelberg and HeiGIT visited the exhibition “MatheLiebe” in Heidelberg. The exhibition demonstrates that: • Mathematics is understandable not only for scientists, but for everyone, • that mathematics is interesting and useful and full of exciting surprises, • and that mathematics is important for technological progress and for our everyday…
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New OpenRouteService Matrix API to speed up batch routing calculations
Admittedly, the OpenRouteService Matrix API is anything but new. Already implemented in mid 2017, it’s been soaring to high demand by numerous clients across the globe ever since. Finally we want to give it the credit it deserves. The ORS Matrix API is the precursor to solve important problems like the traveling salesman problem and even more…