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  • GIScience HD contributes to Int. Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

    GIScience Heidelberg regularily contributes to the ISCRAM conferences. This year we again have four papers dealing with different aspects on crowdsoured geographic information (e.g. OpenStreetMap) in disaster response and management (e.g. OpenFloodRiskMap). Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Alberquerque, J., Leiner, R., Wolff, R., Jacobs, C., Zipf, A. (2016): Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management: A…

  • GeoNet.MRN and Comission for GI Economy organize event on legal aspects of Geoinformation

    Rechtliche Belange im Umgang mit Geoinformationen Mittwoch, 01.06.2016 in der Zeit von 10:00 Uhr bis 15:00 Uhr beim Regionalverband FrankfurtRheinMain, Poststraße 16, 60329 Frankfurt am Main Beim Zugang zu und der Nutzung von Geoinformationen stehen Datenanbieter wie Datennutzer vor vielfältigen rechtlichen Herausforderungen. Fragen des Datenschutzes, der Gewährleistung und Haftung, der Nutzungsbedingungen und der zu berücksichtigenden…

  • Semantic interoperability of geodata: Colloquium talk by Dr. Chiao-Ling Kuo on

    We are happy to invite you to the first colloquium talk of the current summer semester. Next Monday, our new group member (visiting scientist) Dr. Chiao-Ling Kuo from the Academia Sinica (Taiwanese academy of sciences). She will talk about ontology integration and geospatial information semantic interoperability. Don’t miss this interesting and stimulating talk! Dr. Chiao-Ling…

  • CAP4Access team active on the European protest day for the equal rights for people with disabilities

    May 5th is the European protest day for equal rights of people with disabilities. In this scope the Heidelberg advisory board of people with disabilities organised an event at the Theaterplatz Heidelberg to raise awareness regarding the needs of disabled people. As in the previous year the CAP4access team from GIScience group of Heidelberg university…

  • Public talk on Disaster Mapping this evening in Heidelberg

    The topic of the open colloquium series by the Heidelberg Geographic Society (HGG) for this summer semester is “Global Understanding“. The first presentation is given by Prof. Alexander Zipf (GIScience Heidelberg) this evening, Monday May 2nd at 19.00 pm (Location: Heidelberg University, INF 227, HS2) He will talk about Crisis Mapping , i.e. user generated…

  • Report on the 6th PCC meeting of CAP4Access EU project

    The 6th PCC meeting of CAP4Access EU project was held during 21st and 22nd of April in Vienna. Adam Rousell, Stefan Hahmann and Amin Mobasheri attended this meeting from GIScience research group of Heidelberg University. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the progress of deliverables as well as to perform the first experiment…

  • Mapping of environmental risk factors in everyday life

    Psychiatric research is increasingly interested in the influence of social and environmental contexts on human health. According to recent findings, specific impacts of urban upbringing on neural social stress processing relate to the heightened prevalence of mental disorders in cities. Although this is a major societal problem, it remains unknown which environmental components (e.g., psychosocial…

  • A contextualized and personalized model to predict user interest using location-based social networks

    The accurate determination of user interest in terms of geographic information is essential to numerous mobile applications, such as recommender systems and mobile advertising. User interest is greatly influenced by the usage context and varies across individuals; therefore, a user interest model should incorporate these individual needs and propensities. In a recently published journal paper,…

  • Open Position in Geoinformatics, Heidelberg University : Senior Researcher / PostDoc : Analysis, Enrichment & Integration of VGI, OSM, Big Spatial Data

    The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University is offering a position as senior researcher or Postdoc (100%, TVL) in Geoinformatics with a specializion in quality analysis, mining, improvement and integration of data from VGI data sources such as OSM or Social Media. The candidate shall contribute to at least one of the following projects: http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/dfg_en.html…

  • Mapping Event to support relief efforts in Ecuador

    Last Thursday students and researchers of the GIScience group and the Geographical Institute, members of the OSM community and Open Data supporters gathered to support the Ecuador activation of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). In response to the severe earthquake last Saturday, the HOT team had launched several mapping projects to enable the creation of…

  • Programme of the ‘Heidelberg Geographic Society’ published — GIScience Contributing

    The topic of the open colloquium series by the Heidelberg Geographic Society (HGG) for this summer semester is “Global Understanding“. The programme has been published here. The first presentation is given by Prof. Alexander Zipf (GIScience Heidelberg). On Monday May 2nd, 19.00 pm he will talk about user generated geoinformation for disaster management. (Location: INF227,…

  • Reminder: Today OSM Mapathon for Ecuador Disaster at Heidelberg University

    everybody is invited to join our OpenStreetMap Mapathon this evening (Thursday April 21st) at 18pm in the auditorium of the Insitute of Geography Heidelberg University, in the Berliner Straße 48, 69120 Heidelberg. Further information here. Also check our Disaster OpenRouteService for Ecuador at http://openls.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/disaster