Category: Events
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2nd. Call for Papers: RICH-VGI Workshop @ AGILE 2015, Lisboa
2nd Call for Papers: Enriching VGI @ AGILE 2015 Workshop We call for papers for the Workshop: RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge Workshop @ the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science Lisboa, Portugal. Tuesday 9 June 2015 In recent years we have witnessed the rapid…
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GIScience group participated in Open Data Day Mannheim
Last Saturday (21/2) the GIScience group Heidelberg was part of the International Open Data Day. Open data enthusiasts all over the world teamed up to create new applications derived from open (not only governmental) data. The local open data day in Mannheim has seen 7 finished projects including Wikipedia edit wars analyses, public transport visualisations,…
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AGILE 2015 Workshop:::”VALID-LAND: assessing the fitness of citizens observatories for LAND cover/use mapping & VALIDation purposes”
Dear colleagues, In addition to our RICHVGI workshop in AGILE 2015, which will be held on June 9, 2015 in Lisbon, we are organizing a hands-on session called “VALID-LAND: Assessing the fitness of citizens observatories for land cover/land use mapping and validation purposes“. We would be delighted to see you joining along with spreading the word. Topics:…
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GIScience HD @ CEBIT 2015: Specialized Routing Services with IBM and HDM-I
Tour-Optimization in the Cloud in cooperation with IBM and Heidelberg Mobil International HDM-I the GIScience Research Group of Heidelberg University presents new approaches and solutions for specialized tour-optimization based on free and open geodata from OpenStreetMap and Cloud-based services in the in the “Cloud Area” at the CEBIT computer fair. These services enable software developers…
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Citizen Science 2015 in San Jose CA
On the 11th and 12th February 2015, the Citizen Science 2015 conference took place in San Jose, California. Two busy days of presentations, symposia and workshops provided a great opportunity to learn about and discuss the latest developments in research and practice this field. Citizen science, which has been around for some time as an…
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Quality analysis of VGI: Our session at the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2015)
Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce our session called “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” at the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2015), which will take place in Montpellier, France, from September 28th to October 3rd 2015. Please consider submitting and presenting your relevant research in the…
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Report on the first evaluation meeting of CAP4Access project
On January 28, the evaluation meeting for the results of the first year of European FP7 project CAP4Access took place at European Commission in Brussels. Representatives of all project partners gave a presentation of the results and work-in-progress of their tasks which followed by questions from two external reviewers appointed by the European Commission. From the…
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Children experiencing GIScience at the KinderUni Heidelberg
On Saturday, 07.02.2015, the Neuenheimer Feld of the University Heidelberg was the area of interest for new “mappers” of the KinderUni workshop at the Institute of Geography. After an introduction about OpenStreetMap, the children between the age of 9-12 years were able to go out and do some mapping themselves. Equipped with GPS devices and…
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Citizen Science Workshop in Osnabrück
The German Federal Ecological Foundation organized together with the consortium „BürGEr schaffen WISSen (GEWISS)“ a citizen science workshop, which took place at the 26th and 27th of January. Participants from academia, industry and administration discussed recent trends and applications. Furthermore, group discussions regarding limitations and urgent problems of citizen science were also on the agenda.…
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Disaster Mappers Heidelberg organize Talk on Humanitarian Mapping Technologies by Patrick Meier
Thanks to the initative of the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg, Patrick Meier, co-founder of the StandbyTaskForce and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will give a presentation on February 11th 2015 via videoconference at the Insitute of Geography, Großer Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg at 4pm. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about Disaster Mapping, Crisis Mapping…
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This week: Talk by Bastian Entrup
Another interesting GIScience talk is coming up this week. We cordially invite you to the GIS colloquium: 28.01.15, 11.15am Lecture Hall Berliner Straße 48: “Enhancing IR by Adding Geographical Information: Text- and Geo-based Search within a Corpus of Literary Texts” presented by Bastian Entrup. Feel free to find more detailed information under http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/veranstaltungen.html
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Call for Papers: Enriching VGI @ AGILE 2015 Workshop
We call for papers for the Workshop: RICH-VGI: enRICHment of volunteered geographic information (VGI): Techniques, practices and current state of knowledge Workshop @ the 18th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science Lisboa, Portugal. Tuesday 9 June 2015 In recent years we have witnessed the rapid emergence of olunteered Geographical Information (VGI) projects. VGI is being…