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  • Invitation to “Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg” (25.11.2015), Programme available

    Einladung zur Regionalkonferenz des Netzwerks Geoinformation GeoNet.MRN am 25.11.2015 in der Print Media Academy Heidelberg Bereits zum siebten Mal veranstaltet das Geoinformationsnetzwerk der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GeoNet.MRN den Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg. Die Veranstaltung dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Interessenten, Experten, Nutzern und Entscheidungsträgern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und aktuelle Themen in der…

  • A Conceptual Quality Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information @ COSIT 2015 this Tuesday

    The Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) is taking place this week in Santa Fe, USA. This Tuesday our paper on “A Conceptual Quality Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information” by Andrea Ballatore and Alexander Zipf is being presented there. It outlines new proxy measures to several facets of conceptual quality, including accuracy, granularity, completeness, consistency,…

  • Introducing the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg: Wednesday Oct.14.; 16.ct.

    This Wednesday (Oct. 14th) afternoon at 16:15-17:45 the GIScience Research Group @ Heidelberg University will introduce itself to the Master students and any other interested persons and students with a selection of short presentations about some of the key research topics in the group, as indicated through our publications in journals and conferences. This includes:…

  • KlarText! Klaus Tschira Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft 2015 verliehen

    Die Klaus Tschira Stiftung informiert: Wissenschaftskommunikation: Sieben Forscher erhalten 2015 den Klaus Tschira Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft . Am 08.10.2015 wurde zum 13. Mal der Klaus Tschira Preis für verständliche Wissenschaft in der Alten Aula der Universität Heidelberg verliehen. Geehrt werden sieben Nachwuchswissenschaftler, die einen allgemein verständlichen Artikel in deutscher Sprache über ihre Doktorarbeit geschrieben…

  • Workshop bridging OSM community and Wheelchair Users

    Our EU project CAP4Access (MyAccessible.EU) has organized a first international expert workshop during the 5th International Congress on “Tourism for All” in Madrid on 23 September, 2015. The 5th International Congress on Tourism for All has been held in Madrid from September 23 to 25. The first CAP4Access international expert workshop was organized during this…

  • Keynote at IEEE ‘Data Mining for Smart Cities’ Workshop

    The First Workshop on Data Mining for Smart Cities (DMCities 2015) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM) on 14 Nov 2015, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. Prof. Alexander Zipf from GIScience Heidelberg will give an invited Keynote Speach on “Mapping the Urban Crowd – Mining…

  • Talk on OpenStreetMap data quality at University of São Paulo, Brazil

    During mid August and September, Amin Mobasheri had a short research visit to Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) at University of São Paulo, Brazil. Last week on 14th of September, he gave a presentation about “Open Geospatial Data Quality Assessment and Enrichment. The Case study of Routing and navigation services for people with limited…

  • Report on the 27th International Cartographic Conference; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    The 27th International Cartographic Conference (ICC) was held from 23-28th of August in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The conference brought together several hundreds of professors, researchers and students worldwide in three main disciplines of Cartography, GIScience, and Remote Sensing to discuss various research topics ranging from map design, map use, users and usabilities to location…

  • GIScience HD @ Intergeo

    In addition to our previously announced presentation, the GIScience group Heidelberg is also represented with a stand at the Intergeo. We present a variety of outcomes of our efforts from throughout the last years. These include, among others, spatial media analysis, OSM.3D and our highly recognized OpenRouteService or OpenMapSurfer.. Our stand is part of the…

  • GIScience excursion to European Space Agency (ESA)

    Recently the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University visited the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, which serves as the main mission control centre for the European Space Agency (ESA) . The Centre is responsible for a range of activities and in particular operating planetary and solar missions, such as Mars Express and…

  • Recent Progress in Automated Cartography at German Cartographers Day at INTERGEO

    The German Cartographers Day (Deutscher Kartographentag) is taking place at INTERGEO conference held in Stuttgart this week. We will present an update on recent progress in automated cartography in a talk by Andreas Reimer and Maxim Rylov about our latest improvements in automated label placement, which have been implemented in MapSurfer.NET as published as in OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de.…

  • Psychogeography project on SWR Television

    Yesterday’s episode of the SWR TV program Odysso – Wissen im SWR was titled “Stadt, Land, Flucht! – Wo lebt es sich am besten?”. It focused on the relation between the environments and stress and gives insights to the Psychogeography project, a cooperation between the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) Mannheim, the Karlsruhe Institute…