Category: Events
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Children Searching for MH370 & OpenStreetMap Workshop at Young University Heidelberg
On Saturday March 13th we gave an introduction to OpenStreetMap to 18 pupils participating in the KinderUni (Young University) Heidelberg. The computer pool of the Department of Geography was crowded with kids between 8 and 14 years of age. As a motivation the intro started with a typcial – and very actual – crowdsourcing task…
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AGILE 2014 Workshop: Digital Earth: What the hack? – 3 June 2014
Objective This workshop will elaborate on the possibilities of using geospatial information and processing across multiple sectors, and thereby implementing Digital Earth applications, i.e. applications of next-generation Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). With this event, we initiate a coordinated discussion on the topic and through published guidelines prepare the ground for…
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Citizen Science for Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
On the 5th and 6th of March, members of our working group Clemens Jacobs and René Westerholt visited the kickoff meeting of the WIPs-DE project, a Germany-wide effort to improve protection of certain plant species, sponsored by Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN, Bundesamt of Naturschutz) in the federal biodiversity programme. Among other goals, the…
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Citizen Cyberscience Summit @London, UK
Two members of our research group, Clemens Jacobs and Johannes Lauer, attended the Citizen Cyberscience Summit in London (20.-22.02.2014) (http://cybersciencesummit.org/). Three days of talks, workshops and hackday challenges gave profound insights into current and future research, as well as opportunities to contribute results and ideas. A great variety of projects was presented, ranging in from…
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Young Mappers: Practical OSM Intro for Children at “KinderUni” Heidelberg
OpenStreetmap for young pupils We organize a practical workshop for children between the age of 9 and 12 years within the “kids university” at Heidelberg University. The workshop will be on Saturaday 15.03.2014 at the department of Geography and the title is “Navigieren mit der offenen Weltkarte – OpenStreetMap“. It provides an introduction to Crowdsoucing…
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Qualitätsbewertung nutzergenerierter Geodaten am Beispiel OpenStreetMap
was the titel of a well-attended invited talk at the Geodetic Colloquium in January at the KIT Karlsruhe Insitute of Technology, Geodetic Institute by Prof. Alexander Zipf. It presented some examples of our work on OSM quality assessment such as iOSManalyser, OSMatrix, but also research on transforming OpenStreetMap into 3D. e.g. Barron, C., Neis, P.,…
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Eine Nachlese zur Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement
Am 17. Oktober 2013 fand im Studio der Villa Bosch in Heidelberg die Fachtagung „Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement“ statt. Die Veranstaltung konnte nicht zuletzt durch die großzügige Unterstützung der Klaus-Tschira-Stiftung und dem HochwasserKompetenzCentrum (HKC) mit Erfolg und den Rückmeldungen zufolge zur Zufriedenheit der Teilnehmer durchgeführt werden. Sie wurde gemeinsam von…
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Members of GIScience research group receive the best paper and presentation award of SCCH’2013 Conference
The fourth conference on Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage (SCCH) 2013 organized by Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp) took place on 18th of November 2013 at the University of Heidelberg. This conference brought together scientists from computer science and applied mathematics on the one hand and researchers…
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Digital Earth Science Forum “Digital Earth Innovations” at the University of Osnabrueck starts European cooperation
The International Digital Earth Science Forum organized by Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF), the Youth Commission of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and the Association for the Promotion of Geoinformatics in Nothern Germany (GiN e.V.) took place on 4th of December 2013 at the University of Osnabrueck inside the botanical garden.…
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Heidelberg-3D and beyond
was the title of a presentation given at the Smallworld User Meeting in Heidelberg by A. Zipf. It dealt with Spatial Data Infrastructures for 3D data and 3D city models and interoperable ways of visualizing and analysing 3D city models. The examples included Heidelberg-3D.de , OSM-3D.org or OpenBuildingModels.
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Impressions from Friday’s Mapping Brunch
Our second Map-a-thon in support of the HOT activation for the Philippines was held on Friday. In a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, ~30 mappers attended the event. The department provided ample amounts of food and refreshments, many thanks to Svend and the Fachschaft for organizing/providing the cutlery, cooking plate and other equipment. A general introduction…