Category: Events
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GIScience at the KinderUni: OpenStreetMap for kids
Children between the age of 9-12 years have the opportunity to attend a practical workshop at the Institute of Geography within the framework of the KinderUni Heidelberg (Young University) on Saturday, 07.02.2015. In this workshop “OpenStreetMap- die offene Weltkarte. Mach’ mit und werde ein Mapper!” the pupils will get to know OpenStreetMap and Citizen Science…
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Vandalism in Volunteered Geographic Information revisited
In this weeks BrownBag talk at the UCSB Spatial Center Dr. Andrea Ballatore gave a nice overview about vandalism in user generated geographic information. The talk referred to his recent paper on “Defacing the Map: Cartographic Vandalism in the Digital Commons“. There he outlines a typology of different kinds of map-based vandalism through a qualitative…
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Cancelled: GI Colloquium Talk on Thu 18 Dec 2014
We have to cancel the talk in GIScience Colloquium on Thu 18 December 2014.
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This week: Talk by Florian Hillen
The last talk in 2014 is approaching quickly. We cordially invite you to the colloquium: 18.12.14, Lecture Hall Berliner Straße 48: “Geo-Information Fusion: Gaining additional value for real-time Digital Earth applications” Feel free to find more detailed information under http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/veranstaltungen.html
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MayaArch3D @ SFB933/HCCH Joint Workshop
The GIScience Reserarch Group Heidelberg contributed to the workshop „Aktuelle Formen der Präsentation und Edition beschrifteter Artefakte“ through a presentation about the joint project MayaArch3D which was given by Lukas Loos. The workshop took place at the International Science Forum Heidelberg and was jointly organized by the DFG SFB 933 „Materiale Textkulturen“ and the Heidelberg…
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Sino-German Workshop “Multi-dimensional Global Mapping and Services”
The Sino-German workshop on Multi-dimensional Global Mapping and Services was jointly organized by Prof. Dr. Qing Zhu at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) and Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf at Heidelberg University. The workshop was supported by the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion, and was held in the new campus of Southwest Jiaotong University on December 2…
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Upcoming Talk by Jukka M. Krisp
The next talk of the semester will take place on next Thursday afternoon (11th December, 04:15pm). It will be held by professor Jukka Krisp from the University of Augsburg and will be held in the lecture hall in Berliner Straße 48. We cordially invite you to this stimulating colloquium session, which is entitled: “Location Based…
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Digital Earth 2015 – Call for Abstracts, Special Sessions and Workshops
Call for Abstracts, Special Sessions and Workshops Attention scientists, engineers, technologists, environmental managers and other stakeholders in Digital Earth: we welcome your participation in the Digital Earth 2015 Symposium as a presenter, and invite you to submit an Abstract of your proposed oral or poster presentation for consideration. Under the banner “Towards a One-World Vision…
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Vienna – London – Heidelberg! #mapforaccess
Yesterday evening we were happy to see a successful Wheelmap and OpenStreetMap Mapping party on the occasion of the UN International Day of persons with disabilities (Dec 3rd), organized for the EU-project CAP4ACCESS. The event started with a talk given by Stefan Hahmann providing an introduction to the Cap4access project, followed by a presentation of specific mapping…
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Successfull OSM Workshop by Disaster Mappers Heidelberg
Here you find a report on the OSM Workshop that has been organized last week at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University by the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg. There are further options for events to work on OSM in Heidelberg e.g. as next Wednesday (3rd December) for the “OpenStreetMap und Wheelmap Mapping Party” or the Wednesday…
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Two successfully completed PhDs @ GIScience HD
Last week two colleagues successfully defended their PhDs within the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University. The first was the PhD thesis entitled “Exploring and Simulating Spatial Patterns of Urban Growth Using Data-driven and knowledge-based Approaches” by Mr. Hossein Shafeezadeh Moghaddam. The main focus was the development and evaluation of different spatiotemporal modeling strategies for…
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Joint OpenStreetMap & Wheelmap Mapping Party on the 3rd December!
On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the GIScience group invites interested persons to a joint OpenStreetMap & Wheelmap Mapping Party. This event is part of the EU project CAP4ACCESS. Have you ever considered how you can get from A to B in (not only) Heidelberg using a wheelchair? Which places…