Category: External Projects
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MapAction and HeiGIT partner to further geoinformation innovation
The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) and the international humanitarian geospatial charity MapAction have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining their plans to collaborate in a number of areas. Both organisations share a common vision to support humanitarian mapping by providing innovative geoinformation services for humanitarian response, mitigating risk, anticipatory action and economic…
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HeiGIT becomes a partner of the Anticipation Hub
On 8th November 2020, the Anticipation Hub has been officially launched and we are happy to announce that the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT gGmbH) acts as as a partner of the platform right from the start. The Anticipation Hub is a knowledge exchange platform on anticipatory action in terms of humanitarian aid and…
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HGG Vortragsreihe „Klimawandel – Herausforderungen für die Menschheit“ startet mit Jürgen Kropp vom Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung zum Thema „Klimakommunikation in Zeiten von Facebook, Instagram, Telegram und Co“
zu Beginn des Wintersemesters 2020/21 laden wir Sie ganz herzlich zur Vortragsreihe „Klimawandel – Herausforderungen für die Menschheit“ der Heidelberger Gesellschaft für Geographie e.V. (HGG) ein. Die Vortragsreihe wird am Dienstag, 10. November 2020 um 19 Uhr, mit dem Vortrag „Klimakommunikation in Zeiten von Facebook, Instagram, Telegram und Co“ von Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kropp vom…
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Participate in the virtual Copernikus Hackathon 16-17-18 October! HeiGIT contributes with OSM based services
On October 16-18 there is the Copernicus Hackathon “Barcelona” – Integrating Copernicus services and state-of-the-art tools within Weather-induced emergency management HeiGIT is involved in the Copernicus Hackathon by providing free and open web-based services and APIs which leverage OpenStreetMap data as valuable tools for disaster management. The HeiGIT services include: OpenRouteService API, sources, and clients,…
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Disy integriert openrouteservice in Cadenza
Das Karlsruher Softwareunternehmen Disy Informationssysteme GmbH stellt die neue Version der Data-Analytics-, Reporting- und GIS-Plattform “Cadenza” vor. Die Erweiterung der Analytics-Funktionalitäten mit der Bereitstellung einer integrierten Routingfunktion und der POI-Suche sind zwei der wesentlichen Neuerungen. Realisiert wurde das Routing in Cadenza, in dem für die Streckenberechnungen eine Anbindung für den Openrouteservice (ORS), der von der…
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Karlsruhe relies on openrouteservice – ESRI client plugin developed
Since some time the City of Karlsruhe uses the API of Openrouteservice (ORS) by HeiGIT for routing of pedestrians, bicycles and cars in the new online city plan and the citizen GIS app for the general public, i.e. the citizens and visitors of Karlsruhe. You can use it here: https://geoportal.karlsruhe.de/stadtplan https://geoportal.karlsruhe.de/buergergis The specific client developed…
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Data Journalism WebApp about Accessibility in Sweden according to Corona Travel Recommendations
Sveriges Television AB (the public Swedish television company) has published a data journalism WebApp showing how far one can travel according to the recommendations from the Swedish Public Health Authority. Of course the safest recommendation is not to travel at all during the corona crises – but if one absolutely has to, shorter trips of…
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Disaster monitoring with Openrouteservice, example from UN Pulse Lab Jarkarta
Recently the UN Pulse Lab Jakarta has developed a disaster monitoring WebApp called the MIND/DisasterMon platform. According to UN Pulse Lab the objective of the MIND/DisasterMon platform is to try to answer questions related to Disaster Monitoring and emergency response by looking into various sources of data and information from open data platform and social media. The…
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NASA uses Openrouteservice for study on disaster response times
According to a recent post by NASA, researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, calculated the time that could have been saved if ambulance drivers and other emergency responders had near-real-time information about flooded roads, using the 2011 Southeast Asian floods as a case study. This was the first NASA study to…
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Healthsites and HeiGIT establish partnership
The Global Healthsites Mapping Project (Healthsites) and the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology/ GIScience Research Group are happy to announce the now also formal cooperation. Last week, HeiGIT/ GISciences signed the Healthsites Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen their strategic partnership with the main aim to support the analyses, sharing and use of baseline OpenStreetMap…
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HeiGIT at International Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action
Next week, November 12-14th, the 7th International Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action is taking place in Berlin. The platform is organized by the German Red Cross (GRC), World Food Program, German Humanitarian Assistance, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Climate Center of Red Cross and Red Crescent and brings…
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Join us for the 1st Climathon in Heidelberg 26.-27. Oct 2019
We are happy to share that GIScience Heidelberg/HeiGIT participate in the 1st Climathon in Heidelberg on Sat/Sun 26.-27. Oct 2019 at EMBL Heidelberg with a challenge on the following topic: Boost bicycle usage through more attractive bicycle routes Identify factors that make a bike route attractive and develop a prototype estimating these factors to facilitate…