Category: Events
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State of the Map and HOT Summit in Heidelberg
Over the last few days, Heidelberg has been host to the annual HOT Summit and State of the Map conference with a combined attendance of over 800 people. The HOT summit ran from the 19th-20th September and had over 200 attendees from more than 40 different countries. The SotM conference, running from the 21st to…
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TdLab Geographie am K3 Kongress zu Klimakommunikation
„Klimakommunikation in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Transformation“ lautete das Motto des „K3 Kongress zu Klimawandel, Kommunikation und Gesellschaft“ am 24. und 25. September 2019 am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT). Im Rahmen von Keynotes, Foren, Workshops und anderen Formaten bot die Tagung die Gelegenheit zum intensiven Austausch zwischen Wissenschaft und Kommunikationspraxis zu den drei Themenschwerpunkten „Klimakommunikation“, „Klimahandeln“…
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Follow-up BMBF/MOST project “ER3DS” meeting at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan
Within the BMBF-funded project ER3DS (Emission Reduction in Smart Cities Using 3D Spatial Sensing and Analysis) a second workshop and exchange visit was organized and hosted by the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) in Tainan, Taiwan, from 16 September to 19 September 2019. The first day included two lectures at the Dept. of Geomatics (Prof.…
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CFP: GIS track ISCRAM 2020, 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Virginia, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS for the GIS track at: 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2020) May 24-27, 2020, Virginia, USA https://www.drrm.fralin.vt.edu/iscram2020/ Track: Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) https://www.drrm.fralin.vt.edu/iscram2020/files/CFP/ISCRAM2020-Geospatial_Technologies_and_GIS.pdf Deadline for paper submissions: December 6, 2019 Track Description With disasters and disaster management being an…
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OpenStreetMap, eine stille und nützliche digitale Revolution
Über 500 Mitgestalter des ehrenamtlich erstellten Kartenwerks treffen sich in Heidelberg. Ihr Motto: „Freie Projekte benötigen freie Daten“ Verkehrsminister Winfried Hermann: „Nachhaltige Mobilität und frei verfügbare Daten passen sehr gut zusammen“ Ein besonderes Beispiel der digitalen Mitgestaltung ist die OpenStreetMap (abgekürzt: OSM). Am Wochenende ist Heidelberg das Zentrum der OSM-Community. Vom 21. bis zum 23.…
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Pressekonferenz: State of the Map, Heidelberg 21.09.2019
Presseeinladung 18.09.2019 (PDF Link hier) Weltkonferenz für eine Freie Karte Die Macher von OpenStreetMap treffen sich in Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg und Verkehrsministerium Baden-Württemberg unterstützen Initiative Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hochwertiges digitales Kartenmaterial muss nicht kommerziell sein. Seit mittlerweile 15 Jahren zeigen die die Macher der OpenStreetMap (OSM), dass eine weltweite Community in ehrenamtlicher Arbeit frei…
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TdLab Geography contributes to HeKKSaGOn Conference
Dr. Nicole Aeschbach (TdLab Geography) conceives and leads the “Students’ Workshop” within the framework of the “7th German-Japanese University Presidents’ Conference” of the HeKKSaGOn network on September 12 and 13, 2019 in Heidelberg. In this university consortium, Heidelberg University, the University of Göttingen and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have joined forces with three of…
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Call for papers for DGPF Annual Conference 2020 in Stuttgart (Deadline 31 Oct 2019)
We would like to invite you to contribute actively to the DGPF Annual Conference 2020 (Jahrestagung) in Stuttgart. Deadline for abstract submissions (500-1500 words) is 31 October 2019. Our Working Group for Geoinformatics is looking forward to recent research and workbench insights covering the full range of methods in geoinformatics. Go for it and submit…
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Recap of HeiGIT @ FOSS4G 2019
First of all, thanks to everybody who attended our ohsome lab on OpenStreetMap History Analysis at last weeks FOSS4G in Bucharest. Even though there were eleven (!) tracks running in parallel, and our lab was not in the same location as the program track, we had some interested participants. Their affiliation ranged from public institutions…
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Die MS Wissenschaft ist in Heidelberg
Bis zum 01.09.2019 kann die Austellung auf der MS Wissenschaft zum Thema “Künstliche Intelligenz” in Heidelberg besucht werden. Wir waren da und sind begeistert! Für die Ausstellung hat das HeiGIT gemeinsam mit dem Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in Potsdam das Mitmach-Exponat Mensch und Maschine – Forschung im Team entwickelt.
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HeiGIT presents ohsome Lab at FOSS4G 2019 Bucharest
This week, the annual conference FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) is taking place in Bucharest, Romania. The conference is organized by The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and attracts over 1000 professionals from industry and academia each year. The HeiGIT Big Spatial Data Team will present the ohsome platform and related tools such as the…
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Place in GIScience Paper at Platial 2019
The International Symposium on Platial Information Science PLATIAL’19 will be held this year at the University of Warwick in September 5-6. The programme has just been published and includes a paper from our research group about a systematic literature review about Place in the GIScience Community. As the first PLATIAL’2018 symposium held in Heidelberg 2018…