Category: Events
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Just in time geographies @ EUGEO 2013
We do contribute to the session “just in time geographies” (S19) at the EUGEO congress of the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe. It is taking place in Rome 5.-7. September 2013 and Alexander Zipf is giving an invited talk on the relationship between VGI data quality and usage potential for dynamic geographies. This session…
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Draft Programme for conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”
A first draft list of talks and presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” (17.10.2013, Heidelberg, Studio Villa Bosch) is available. In addition there will be several short presentations during the workshop-part of the event. This is a draft programme subject to change: some titles are still working titles.…
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Registration form for conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” is available online
The Registration Form for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” on 17.10.2013 in Heidelberg is now online. The programme will follow soon!
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Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement
Vorankündigung / Save the Date: Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement am 17.10.2013 in Heidelberg (Studio Villa Bosch) Nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund des diesjährigen „Jahrhunderthochwassers“ befasst sich die Fachtagung mit der Frage wie Freiwillige und Nicht-Fachkräfte mittels sozialer Medien und moderner Web-basierter Methoden bei der Erfassung und Kommunikation aktueller Vor-Ort-Informationen…
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Survey shows strength of GI Science
A survey of the cluster GeoNet.MRN shows that “Science” (Wissenschaft) is the greatest strength of the regional gi community. We do agree 😉 The survey has been presented at the latest cluster meeting of the regional network on geographic information of the Metropole Region Rhein-Neckar.
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First MayaArch3D Status Workshop in Heidelberg
This Monday and Tuesday the first yearly Status Workshop within the collaborative BMBF Project MayaArch3D “A Web-based 3D-GIS for the Analysis of the Archaeology of Copan, Honduras” has taken place at Heidelberg University with the team members from the GIScience Research Group Heidelberg, the German Archeological Institute (DAI) and the Foundacio Bruno Kessler (FBK). The…
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Celebrating 25 years of AGIT
The Geoinformatics Symposium AGIT celebrates it’s 25th birthday. Congratulations! We do celebrate with the colleagues in Salzburg being part of the the AGIT community for 18 years now. Also this year we participate actively with several paper contributions both at AGIT and GI-Forum, e.g. Mapping the Crowd, iOSMAnalyzer, Citizen Science for Biodiversity data, Analysing Crimes…
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TV Spot about OpenStreetMap
Some weeks ago a TV team recorded a short TV spot at our research group (we reported about that earlier). It was subjected to the OpenStreetMap project and some of its possible applications. Today it has been broadcast on ARD. For those who are interested in, but unfortunately missed it, the spot can be found…
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Invitation to meet with regional cluster GeoNet.MRN
The next meeting of the regional cluster GeoNet.MRN will take place in Heppenheim on 03.07.2013 (14.00h s.t.). Anybody interested in geoinformation is cordially invited – free of charge. Here you find the invitation letter (in German). Let’s come together!
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Explore Science! How to make your own Map
“Fascinating Earth” is this year’s topic of the Explore Science days. This project of the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation aims at interesting children and pupils for the natural sciences – this year in particular Geosciences. It takes place each year for a week at Luisenpark Mannheim. Prof. Zipf will present on Friday morning (28.06.2013) how anybody – even…
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GIScience Offices Have Been Transformed Into a TV Studio
On Monday the 27th of May a camera team from the NDR visited the offices of the GIScience Research Group. The intent was to produce an introduction to the OpenStreetMap project and its potential for different applications like for instance special needs routing (such as rollstuhlrouting.de as a special version of OpenRouteService.org), emergency management and Disaster…