Author: GIScience HD
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TODAY at Heidelberg: Join OSM Mapathon for ‘Geography Awareness Week’
Dear Geographers and Mapping Enthusiasts, November 12th-18th is the international OpenStreetMap GeoWeek as part of the Geography Awareness Week. Since 1987, in the third week of November all around the world different kind of projects and activities are planned to raise awareness about the significance of geography and spatial data and how we affect and…
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Deutsches Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) nutzt openrouteservice als eigenen Routing-Dienst
Seit einiger Zeit nutzt das Deutsche Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) openrouteservice (ORS) mit Daten von OpenStreetMap (OSM) als eigenen Routing-Dienst, inklusive der Geocoder und Isochronen APIs von ORS. Außerdem wurde die openrouteservice API um spezielle Funktionen erweitert, die z.B. für Radrouting relevant sind. Das BKG ist die amtliche Stelle für topographische Daten, Kartographie…
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3rd CFP: Special Issue “Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics”, Deadline End of Nov 2017, Open Access by Taylor & Francis, no publishing costs
Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics Aims and Scope Modern mobile devices are pervasively equipped with embedded sensors and cameras, and allow the positioning of media contents within geographic space. In combination with the Web 2.0 paradigm, this has led to the crowdsourcing approach, which in turn has become an important data acquisition technique. It is now…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: GIS track of ISCRAM, International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
CALL FOR PAPERS 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018) May 20-23, 2018, Rochester, NY, USA https://iscram2018.rit.edu/submissions Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://iscram2018.rit.edu/sites/rit.edu.iscram2018/files/docs/ISCRAM_2018_track_GIS.pdf Deadline for paper submissions: December 03, 2017 Track Description With disasters and disaster management being an “inherently spatial” problem, geospatial…
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Einladung: Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg: am 09.11.17 endet die offizielle Anmeldefrist für Teilnehmer.
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren der diesjährige Fachaustausch eilt mit Siebenmeilenstiefeln auf uns zu. Fachaustausch Geoinformation Die Netzwerkkonferenz des GeoNet.MRN e.V. Termin: Donnerstag, den 23.11.2017, 9.30 – 16.30 Uhr Ort: Print Media Academy, Heidelberg Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Die Zahl der Teilnehmer begrenzt. Infos und Programm: www.fachaustausch-geoinformation.de Kommenden Donnerstag, den 09.11.17 endet die offizielle Anmeldefrist…
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The impacts of environmental factors on cycling behavior
As it is widely accepted, cycling tends to produce health benefits and reduce air pollution. Policymakers encourage people to use bikes by improving cycling facilities as well as developing bicycle-sharing systems (BSS). It is interesting to investigate how environmental factors influence the cycling behavior of users of bicycle-sharing systems, as users of bicycle-sharing systems tend…
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GIScience News Blog Heidelberg among Top 60 GIS Blogs and Websites about Geographic Information Systems
Recently Feedspot selected our GIScience News Blog Heidelberg http://giscience.uni-hd.de for the “top blogs in GIS” list. The Feedspot list is the most comprehensive list of Top 60 GIS Blogs on the internet. Thank you very much! We are happy to serve you with further most recent information about GIS research and related developments. You can…
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Climate Protection Map Germany is Online – Share your knowledge about renewable energies and sustainability on OpenStreetMap
The Klimaschutzkarte Deutschland (Climate Protection Map Germany, www.Klimaschutzkarte.de) makes it easy to retrieve relevant information on the topics of energy and sustainability and to locate them in geographic space. The Climate Protection Map of Germany uses the possibilities of web technologies and is based on user-contributed data from OpenStreetMap to allow interested citizens to find out…
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Mobile low-cost 3D camera maize crop height measurements under field conditions
Maps of the spatial distribution of crop heights can strongly support agriculture in terms of efficiency and yield optimization. Recently published results of experiments of the 3D Spatial Data Processing research group describe an approach to easily extend regular agricultural machines with low-cost sensors for capturing crop heights while the machine is in the field.…
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2nd CFP Special Issue: “Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics”, Deadline End of Nov 2017, Open Access by Taylor & Francis, no publishing costs
Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics Aims and Scope Modern mobile devices are pervasively equipped with embedded sensors and cameras, and allow the positioning of media contents within geographic space. In combination with the Web 2.0 paradigm, this has led to the crowdsourcing approach, which in turn has become an important data acquisition technique. It is now…
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GIScience Colloquium talk on Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings by Andreas Wichmann
we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk Automatic Reconstruction of Buildings with Complex Roof Shapes Andreas Wichmann Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation Science, Technische Universität Berlin Time and date: Mon, October 23, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University Digital 3D city models are of…