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  • Disaster Mapping for the Philippines – continued: Munch in HD @ Friday!

    Aufgrund der großen Nachfrage nach einer schnellen Wiederholung des Mapping-Events vom vergangenen Donnerstag laden die Disaster Mappers Heidelberg am kommenden Freitag, 22.11.2013, um 11:00 zum Mapping Brunch (=”Munch”) in den Großen Hörsaal der Berliner Straße 48 ein. Wir werden aktuelle relevante Gebiete auf den Philippinen kartieren. Gleichzeitig habt Ihr die Gelegenheit, an einem Mapping-Experiment teilzunehmen:…

  • Call for Chapter Proposal Submission on “OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications”

    Edited by Jamal Jokar Arsanjani GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany Alexander Zipf GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Germany Peter Mooney Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, Ireland Marco Helbich, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Introduction The radical societal and Information…

  • Engaging Data Forum at MIT

    Last week GIScience Research Group members were attending the Engaging Data Forum organized by the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Carlo Ratti (Director) and Assaf Biderman (Associate Director) from SENSEable City Laboratory open Engaging Data Forum Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics and Barton Gellman, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and publisher…

  • Impressions and results from Haiyan Crisis Mapathon at Heidelberg University

    UPDATE: An additional Mapathon will take place on Friday 22nd 2013 from 11.00 onwards in the lecture hall of the Department of Geography, Berliner Str. 48, Heidelberg University. CrisisMapping by volunteers is on the rise and and an more and more important contribution to professional disaster management. This has also been confirmed within our conference…

  • Digital Geoarchaeology 2013: Laser scanning hands-on workshop with GIScience assistance

    On Saturday, 9th of November, a hands-on laser scanning workshop took place within the framework of the Conference ‘Digital Geoarchaeology – New Technologies for Interdisciplinary Human-Environmental Research‘ (held at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities). The conference organizers Dr. Christoph Siart1) and Dipl.-Geogr. Markus Forbriger2) introduced a group of interested conference participants to terrestrial…

  • Uni Heidelberg “OSM Mapathon” for Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan: Thursday afternoon, November 14th 2013

    UPDATE: First Impressions from the Mapathon Thursday 14th can be found here. UPDATE2: An additional Mapathon will take place on Friday 22nd 2013 in the lecture hall of the Department of Geography, Berliner Str. 48, Heidelberg University. In order to to support the crisis mappers with better geographic information and maps for the regions affected…

  • CrisisMapping Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

    Typhoon Haiyan (also called Yolanda) has hit the Phillipines killing likely over 1000 people and is approaching Vietnam and Laos. The crisis mapper communities have reacted fast and started to map the affected areas in OpenStreetMap such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) and the Standby Task Force (SBTF) is officially deploying in response to…

  • Fun GeoCaching at Night

    GIScience research group members have some fun with their GPS while GeoCaching at Night (pic 1) in beautiful Heidelberg (pic 2, the day after).

  • Some Impressions from the Conference on Social Media in Disaster Management in Heidelberg

    Here you find some first impressions from our very successful conference on Web 2.0 and social media in disaster management that we organized in Heidelberg on October 17th. Here you find the presentations.

  • Programm verfügbar: Einladung zum “Fachaustausch Geoinformation” am 27.11.2013 in Heidelberg

    bereits zum 5. Mal veranstaltet das Geoinformationsnetzwerk der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GeoNet.MRN den Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg (27.11.2013). Die Veranstaltung unter der Schirmherrschaft des Ministeriums für Wirtschaft und Finanzen Baden-Württemberg dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Interessenten, Experten, Nutzern und Entscheidungsträgern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und aktuelle Themen in der Geoinformationswirtschaft. Offizieller Partner der…

  • Presentations from Conference on Web 2.0 & Social Media in Disaster Management are online

    The presentations from the conference “Web 2.0 and Social Media in Disaster- and Flodd Management” are online below. Most presentations are in German. We thank all speakers for making the documents available! Ronald Voigt (Landratsamt Meißen): “Kurzbericht zu Erfahrungen aus dem Hochwasser 2013” Voigt_Erfahrungsbericht Claudia Schorr / Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – Generalsekretariat Berlin: “Die Rolle…

  • Call for participation: Digital Earth Science Forum in Osnabrück

    Digital Earth Science Forum “Digital Earth Innovations” in Osnabrueck on the 4th of December 2013. The Digital Earth Science Forum is aimed at students and young researchers as well as experienced scientists in the research field of Digital Earth. The forum provides the possibility to listen to innovative presentations by invited speakers, discuss participants’ scientific…