Author: GIScience HD

  • Interview on Crowdsourcing for Optimized Cycle Routes

    On the occasion of the international Bike2Work Day the radio Berlin Brandenburg (RBB) conducted a short interview with Prof. Alexander Zipf (GIScience HD/ HeiGIT). It was about current research and development work at the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and HeiGIT, which involve the use of user-generated geodata for investigations between cycling behaviour and health, as well as…

  • Last Call for Papers on VGI-ANALYTICS – Special Issue in Geo-Spatial Information Science

    Geo-spatial Information Science Special Issue Call for Papers on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)-Analytics Deadline: 9 June 2017 Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS) invites you to submit your paper to this forthcoming special issue on: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)-Analytics. ​ Aims and Scope Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media data have become part of our everyday…

  • Teaching in Santiago de Chile at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America

    NEOHAZ team members Carolin Klonner and Tomás Usón were teaching at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America (HCLA). The block module GIS 2 for the “research methodologies” seminar was attended by students of the international Master “Governance of Risks and Resources”. The master is a joined project of the Heidelberg University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de…

  • Paper on OSMlanduse.org at AGIT

    The programme of the AGIT Symposium 2017 in Salzburg is online now and it includes a first paper about the work at GIScience Heidelberg on OSMlanduse.org. It will be presented 6 July in the afternoon at AGIT Salzburg. The talk is entitled “OSMLanduse Version 1” while the full titel of the paper is: Voß, J.,…

  • Bike2Work Week: Let OpenRouteService help to find nice routes.

    It is #Bike2Work Week ! (*) Time to think about some more nice bicycle tours in BikeMonthMay (any beyond 😉 OpenRouteService.org does assist you with a set of nice options for different types of bicyclist, such as Safest Tour, Touring Bike, Mountain Bike or Road Bike. This includes also an E-Bicycle profile which especially comes in handy…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on the Use of Big data for detecting human activities, May 15

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk on Mon, May 15, 2.15 pm, at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015. The presentation will be given by Prof. Bo Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong). The topic is: Big data for detecting human activities Recent years have…

  • “How to handle OpenStreetMap data” Workshop Heidelberg, Mai 18th

    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 maps…

  • Monitoring and Assessing Post-Disaster Tourism Recovery Using Geotagged Social Media Data

    Tourism is a economically highly important industry. It is, however, vulnerable to disaster events. Geotagged social media data, as one of the forms of volunteered geographic information (VGI), has been widely explored to support the prevention, preparation, and response phases of disaster management, while little effort has been put on the recovery phase. A recently…

  • GIScience Colloquium Talk on Using UAVs and LiDAR to Investigate Tropical Forests, May 08

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk on Mon, May 08, 2.15 pm, at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 348, Lecture Hall, Room 015. The presentation will be given by Harm Bartholomeus (Wageningen). The topic is: Investigating Tropical Forests with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and LiDAR Constant…

  • ISPRS Best Paper Award on human activity patterns for Dr. Wei Huang

    Recently the paper “Understanding human activity patterns based on space-time-semantics” by Wei Huang, and Songnian Li (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada) has been selected as the best paper published in 2016 (volumes 111-122) in the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Dr. Wei Huang is since late 2016 team member of the GIScience Research Group.…

  • OpenRouteService with new API, functions and look

    We would like to introduce you to a brand new API of OpenRouteService.org and a revamped route planner with many more features than before. With this major release we have removed XML and introduced a (much) longed for JSON support. You will notice some drastic optimisation in response times and you now have the advantage…

  • Wisdom of the Crowd from LBSN: PhD Defence of Ming Li

    Last Thursday our GIScience HD team member Ming Li successfully defended her PhD. The thesis is entitled “Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd from Location-based Social Networks: Theoretical Potentials and Practical Applications”. Thanks to the technical advancements, the mobile users all over the world are collaborating in the location-based social networks (LBSNs) to create a…