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  • GIScience @AGIT/GI Forum conference 2015

    Last week members of the GIScience Research Group were attending the AGIT – Symposium and Exhibit for applied Geoinformatics in Salzburg. Beside the interesting welcome note given by Manfred Hauswirth from TU Berlin talking about the impact of Linked Data, the Internet of Things, and Clouds for Geospatial Information Systems, further keynotes and conference talks…

  • Visit to Hambach Castle

    Recently the members of the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University visited Hambach Castle nearby across the Rhine valley in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is considered the symbol of the German Democracy movement because of the Hambacher Fest from 1832. (see playmobil photo) The trip of the institute included a nice hike through the hilly forests, a guided…

  • OpenRouteService at the Heidelberg wheelchair marathon

    On last Saturday we braved the tropical heat and used the occasion of the 13th international wheelchair marathon in Heidelberg to inform the public about our recent developments regarding wheelchair accessible route planning with OpenRouteService. We are thankful for the interesting conversations with people from Germany, Denmark, Japan, England and France and for their valuable…

  • Talk “Mixed-Scale Spatial Autocorrelation” in Osnabrück

    Last Tuesday, René Westerholt gave a talk about the assessment of spatial autocorrelation within social media data. It was part of the regular colloquium of the Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing at Osnabrück University. The talk provided an overview of challenges that occur due to the spatially and semantically mixed nature of social media…

  • MappingParty 4 India and Chile at Heidelberg University

    on Wednesday, July 8, we invite you to a mapping event organized by students, similar to the earlier mapping events in Heidelberg, where numerous people had participated. This time we chose two regions which suffer on the one hand from high vulnerability and many natural hazards and where on the other hand OpenStreetMap still has…

  • Talk ‘3D Geodata – Background and Application’ given at Heidelberg University of Education.

    At Thursday, 2nd of July, Martin Hämmerle from the GIScience LiDAR Research Group gave a talk at the Geography colloquium series of the Heidelberg University of Education. Entitled ‘3D Geodata – Background and Application’, the talk introduced basics about 3D geodata and gave a broad overview to research projects of the chair of GIScience. The…

  • Talk on Real time GIS and its applications by Prof. Jianya Gong (Wuhan)

    We cordially invite you to our GIScience colloquium talk this week on Thursday 02.07.2015 at 16:15 at the Department of Geography Heidelberg University (Lecture Hall, Berliner Str. 46, ). Our guest Prof. Jianya Gong, Director of Wuhan University’s State Key Lab of Information Sciences in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) and member of the…

  • Talk by WheelMap Founder Raul Krauthausen in Schriesheim ( 03.07.)

    Raul Krauthausen – the multi award-winning activists well-known from TV and press, founder of Sozialhelden and WheelMap.org – presents his book “Dachdecker wollt ich eh nicht werden“. WheelMap.org is a prime example of how social engagement and Crowdsouring geodata via OpenStreetMap can be combined perfectly. Friday, 03/07/2015 19h (doors open at 18:30) in the multi-purpose…

  • AGILE 2015 conference (and third place poster award)

    Last week saw the 18th AGILE conference being held in Lisbon, Portugal. Starting on Tuesday with a number of parallel workshops, the conference ran until Friday and included a number of interesting talks, key note sessions and a number of social events. The presence of GIScience at Heidelberg University was felt through two workshops being…

  • Crowdsourcing Accessibility Information – Talk at University of Education Heidelberg

    Yesterday, a talk was given by Stefan Hahmann within the frame of the colloquium series of the geography department at Heidelberg University of Education. The talk was entitled “Crowdsourcing for individual needs – the example of wheelchair routing“. Besides a general introduction to the field of crowdsourcing, VGI and OpenStreetMap, our research and development activities…

  • TV report on PsychoGeoinformatics (MakingOf)

    Yesterday a team from SWR television visited the GIScience group Heidelberg to shoot a movie for a TV report about our joint work on investigating and modeling the relationship between environmental or socio-demographic characteristics of a region and mental stress in urban areas. The PsychoGeography project is conducted together with the Psychoepidemiologisches Zentrum (PEZ) at…

  • MayaArch3D Closing Meeting 4th/5th of June 2015 at DAI-KAAK, Bonn

    The MayaArch3D project held its final closing meeting at the German Archaeological Institute in Bonn from the 4th to the 5th of June 2015. Two days of discussions and presentations demonstrated the results of the 3-year BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research) funded project “MayaArch3D – A Web-based 3D-GIS for the Analysis of the…