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  • Assessing Data Quality of OSM Buildings and Landuse Revisited :: GIScience Heidelberg contributes to 8th Dresden Land Use Symposium

    On the May 11 and 12, the 8. Dresdener Flächennutzungssymposium (the 8th Symposium of development, monitoring and usages of landuse Dresden) took place in Dresden, Germany. The symposium aims to bring together industry, academy and local government, in order to demonstrate and exchange latest developments in methods, tools and software for the management of landuse…

  • 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…

  • EGU Session: 3D Point Clouds in Geosciences: Capturing, Analysis and Visualization

    The session “3D Point Clouds in Geosciences: Capturing, Analysis and Visualization” at the EGU 2016 General Assembly achieved high interest and active participation: the lecture room was fully crowded with peopling standing; intensive and lively discussions took place at the posters. Furthermore, the quality of the contributions (oral as well as posters) was high and…

  • 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

  • Disaster OpenRouteService for Ecuador Earthquake

    In order to provide emergency and rescue forces in Ecuador with the latest information concerning infrastructural conditions of roads and buildings the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) as part of the OpenStreetMap Community coordinates the crisis mapping activities for the Ecuador earthquake. As a first support of these activities the GIScience Heidelberg team set up a…

  • GIScience contributed to workshop “Open Data” in Heidelberg

    Last friday the GIScience Research Group was invited to participate in a follow-up workshop on “Open Data”. Already in December 2015 the GIScience Research Group and the disastermappers heidelberg had been invited to present their work on Open Data in the 10th “Modellierungstag” of the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the…