Category: Events

  • GIScience at Fachaustausch Geoinformation 2017

    On November 23d, the 9th “Fachaustausch Geoinformation“, a yearly networking  event  for professionals in the geodata and geoinformation domain organised by GeoNet.MRN, took place in Heidelberg’s Print Media Academy. GIScience research group at Heidelberg University and HeiGIT (Heidelberg Center for Geographic Information Technology) presented current research and projects at the event’s exhibition. Theresia Bauer, Baden-Württemberg’s Minister…

  • GIScience Colloquium talk on Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data by Diao Lin

    we cordially invite everybody interested to our next open GIScience colloquium talk State of the Art of Event Detection from Geo-tagged Twitter Data Diao Lin Chair of Cartography, Technical University of Munich Time and date: Mon, November 27, 2:15 pm Venue: INF 348, Room 015, Department of Geography, Heidelberg University The speaker tries to give…

  • Keynote at ‘Fachaustausch Geoinformation’ Heidelberg / Meet GIScience Heidelberg and HeiGIT

    The regional GI Conference “Fachaustausch Geoinformatik” of the GeoNet.MRN is taking place on this Thursday Nov 23rd at the Print Media Academy Heidelberg. Prof. Alexander Zipf is giving one keynote about analysis and usage potential of free and open geodata. He will present some of the related work of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and…

  • Today “First Lego League” at Mathematikon Heidelberg

    Here you find some impressions from the regional tournament of the First League League (FLL), that today took place for the first time at Mathematikon Heidelberg and was co-organized by NanoGiants Academy e.V. and IWR (Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing) Heidelberg University. This is part of a world wide event with over 1000 teams participating. School…

  • GIScience visit to Haus der Astronomie Heidelberg

    Members of the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) had a really great visit to the fancy “Haus der Astronomie” (Wow, the architecture mimics a spiral galaxy!), the Max Plank Institute of Astronomie and the historic Landessternwarte Königstuhl (state observatory) from 1898. An interactive trip through the galaxy and beyond was…

  • Einladung: HGG-Vortrag: Verkehrsplanung in Heidelberg – derzeitige Konzepte und Zukunftsvisionen

    Die Heidelberger Geographische Gesellschaft lädt ein: Verkehrsplanung in Heidelberg – derzeitige Konzepte und Zukunftsvisionen Dienstag, 21. November 2017, 19:00 Uhr Dipl.-Geogr. Sebastian Gieler (Stadt Heidelberg) Ort der Abendvorträge Kleiner Hörsaal (HS2) des Kirchhoff -Instituts für Physik (KIP) Heidelberg ist in den letzten Jahren um 10.000 Einwohner und ebenso viele Arbeitsplätze gewachsen. Ein ähnlicher Zuwachs ist…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Missing Maps mapathon to support OSM GeoWeek

    Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, November 12th-18th is the international OpenStreetMap GeoWeek. 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 are affected by it. This year we celebrate the…

  • 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…

  • Third successful Wheelmap event with volunteers of SAP at Heidelberg

    On Monday 09 October 2017 the GIScience group of Heidelberg university organised another Wheelmap mapping event for SAP volunteers in the course of the “SAP month of service“. Volunteers of SAP already supported the CAP4Access team in merging volunteered accessibility data (from Wheelmap.org) and expert accessibility data (from Heidelberg Hürdenlos) two years ago and by…