Category: Events
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OSM Mapathon for Ecuador Earthquake at Heidelberg University on Thursday April 21st
Last Saturday Ecuador was hit by a severe earthquake. Especially large parts of the coastal region have been devastated. Just a few hours later the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team started first mapping actions to help producing the urgently needed geographic information and maps in OpenStreetMap. We want to participate in the relief work with a mapping…
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“Do you speak Math”? 61 presentations this semester
The topic of the “Akademische Mittagspause” (a kind of open brown bag series for the public) at Heidelberg University is this semester is “Do you speak Math?“. In total more then 60 different 15min presentations (+ 15 in discussion) are given in the “Peterskirche”, Plöck 70, 69117 Heidelberg on a daily basis Monday to Friday,…
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Successful kickoff meeting for project ‘3D-TAIGER’ at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan
From April 5th till April 9th , the three GIScience members Bernhard Höfle, Kristina Koenig, and Martin Hämmerle visited colleagues at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, within the frame of the collaboration and exchange project 3D-TAIGER (‘Multi-Source 3D Geoinformation Extraction for Improved Management of Forest and Natural Hazards – Collaboration between TAIwan…
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10 Days to Deadline for Link-VGI Workshop Short Papers at AGILE 2016
A little reminder that the Deadline for Short Papers for the Link-VGI Pre Conference Workshop at AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki is approaching! The main theme is “LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms” and the workshop shall focus, but is not limited to, the following topics and…
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GIScience HD re-united in new office building (new address!)
This week the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg is moving to a new location: the offices of the whole group are now in the building-complex Im Neuenheimer Feld 368 (1st floor) and 348 (ground floor) – also called INF 348 and INF 368 for short – at the Neuenheim Campus (“Im Feld”) of Heidelberg University. Because…
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disastermappers heidelberg and GIScience meeting Missing Maps in London to foster collaboration and partnership
Last week, Carolin Klonner, Benjamin Herfort, Melanie Eckle (GIScience Heidelberg and disastermappers heidelberg), Svend-Jonas Schelhorn, Christof Nichterlein (disastermappers heidelberg), Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque (GIScience Heidelberg and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick) and Roberto Rocha (University of Münster) travelled to London to meet the Missing Maps team. During a one and a…
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Praxis-Forum “Open Data” Heidelberg ::: GIScience contributes with open table about Disaster Management with OpenStreetMap ::: Register until April 10th
we want to make you aware that it is still possible to register for the Praxis-Foum “Open Data” in Heidelberg which will take place on Friday April 15th in the new Mathematikon. This time the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg will do a hands on “Open Table” introduction to Disaster Management with OpenStreetMap. The event is…
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PhD Defence of David Jonietz
We cordially congratulate our team member David Jonietz on the successful defence of his PhD! The studies about Agent-Based Models of Individual and Collective Place Formation were performed at Augsburg University with Prof. Timpf as first supervisor. We wish him all the best for the future.
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GIScience HD contributes to Crisis Mapping Workshop for the “Natural Risk in a Changing World“ Spring School at Potsdam University
Last Friday, 18th March, Carolin Klonner and Melanie Eckle of the GIScience Research Group were invited to give a workshop on “Crisis Mapping with OpenStreetMap” in scope of the DFG Graduate School “Natural Risk in a Changing World” Spring School at the University of Potsdam. The PhD candidates were introduced to current research and practices…
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Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis – Kick-Off Meeting
This week the Kick-Off Meeting of a recently started collaboarative project on “Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis” (CrowdFDA) took place at GIScience Heidelberg University together with partners from the Geophysical Institute of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Dr. Bijan Khazai) as member in the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM, KIT) and…
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CAP4Access participated in symposium on inclusive society in Heidelberg
Yesterday, the Heidelberg CAP4Access team contributed to an symposium on the topic of inclusive society that was held in the old congress hall in the historic center of Heidelberg. The symposium was organized by Stiftung Lebenshilfe Heidelberg. We have presented some of our latest CAP4Access developments, particularly the accessible route planning profile of OpenRouteService, on…