Category: Events
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Semester Start Mapathon with Kathmandu Living Labs
Dear Students, Mappers and Employees, we would like to invite you to the first mapathon, mapping party, mapswipeathon of this semester, which will be focusing on Nepal. (Just in time with the upcoming talk at the HGG on tuesday.) 😀 When? 07.05.2018, 6 pm Where? Geographisches Institut, Berliner Straße 48 Our mapathon is organized in…
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Colloquium on Change Analysis of Hypertemporal Terrestrial Laser Scanning Point Clouds
We cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk The speaker is Evelyn Schmitz Master student, FARO Europe GmbH & Co. KG, Korntal-Münchingen When: Monday 30.04.2018, 2:15 pm Where: INF 348, room 015 (Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University) Voxel-based change analysis of hypertemporal terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of the research campus ARENA2036 including…
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Upcoming Ohsome Conferences
The Ohsome OSM history analytics platform, developed at HeiGIT, will be presented at the following conferences: ISCRAM in Rochester, NY, USA (20th – 23rd of May) In the short paper for the International Conference for Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management we illustrate the specific potential of the ohsome platform for disaster activations by means of two…
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Heidelberg Geography in Blossom
Again and again each spring it is really awesome (not ohsome 😉 to have a look at our GIScience offices at the Institute of Geography, INF 348, Heidelberg University.
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Deadline Extended to April 23: VGI-ALIVE Workshop @AGILE 2018
The Deadline for submitting short papers to the VGI-ALIVE Workshop at AGILE 2018 has been extended to 23 April 2018! This is your chance to submit another contribution to this exiting workshop in Lund, Sweden. Submission format is a workshop short paper (2000 to 3000-word manuscript). Authors of accepted workshop papers will be invited to…
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Celebrating 10 Years of Openrouteservice – The First OpenStreetMap Route Planner
Exactly 10 years ago openrouteservice.org came online for the very first time. Back then it was the very first online routing service consuming data from OpenStreetMap.org covering larger areas. So to say it is ‘the original‘ OSM routing service. It initially started with Germany only and soon we provided routing for Europe and finally the…
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Keynote at GISRUK Conference 2018, Leicester
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf is a invited keynote speaker at the 26th annual GIScience Research UK conference (GISRUK) will be held at the University of Leicester on 17-20 April 2018. On Thursday April 18th he will give a talk on “Operationalising Volunteered Geographic Information – From Analytics to Improvement and Application“. Much research has been…
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Nama Budhathoki (Kathmandu Living Labs) visit at GIScience/ HeiGIT- The power of civic tech or how to connect data, GIS technology and people
Just before the Easter holidays, our GIScience/HeiGIT team hosted Dr. Nama Raj Budhathoki, Executive Director of Kathmandu Living Labs (KLL), to take our existing collaboration to the next level. KLL and GIScience/HeiGIT have collaborated in various projects in the last few years. GIScience/HeiGIT have contributed to OSM data of Nepal through mapathons in Heidelberg. Relevant…
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Save-the-Date: Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg diesmal an zwei Tagen
Save-the-Date: Der ‘Fachaustausch Geoinformation‘ versammelt die Geo-Community dieses Jahr am 28.11. und 29.11.2018 in Heidelberg Die Jahreskonferenz des GeoNet.MRN e.V., der “Fachaustausch Geoinformation” hat in den letzten Jahren stetig an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dies spiegelt sich auch an den wachsenden Teilnehmerzahlen wieder. Die hohe Themenvielfalt und der erfreuliche Teilnehmerzuwachs haben uns dazu bewogen, unsere Jahreskonferenz in…
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Visit to the ‘Illusions’ Exhibition at Ginko Museum Heidelberg
Recently some members of the GIScience Research Group / HeiGIT from Heidelberg University visited the exhibition ‘Illusions’ at the Museum am Ginko Heidelberg. It was both very interesting and a lot of fun, including featuring a VR rollercoaster demo. Find below some impressions of the hike and visit.
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Workshop with Wikimedia on Disaster Management: Connecting Humanitarian Actors, Research and Digital Volunteer Communities
Over the last couple of years a new group of actors has become increasingly important to support disaster management – digital volunteers. They support disaster responses and humanitarian activities from all over the world. Crowdsourced Wikipedia articles are oftentimes the first source of information people read to learn more about a disaster. Likewise, the OpenStreetMap…