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  • Generating Customized Pleasant Pedestrian Routes Based on OpenStreetMap Data

    In a newly published open access paper, we present a system that generates customized pedestrian routes entirely based on data from OpenStreetMap (OSM). The system enables users to define to what extent they would like the route to have green areas (e.g., parks, squares, trees), social places (e.g., cafes, restaurants, shops) and quieter streets (i.e.,…

  • Mit offenen Daten Grünflächen in Städten neu entdecken – Projekt „meinGrün“ startet

    Im Projekt „meinGrün“ entwickeln Partner aus Wissenschaft, kommunaler Praxis und Wirtschaft unter Leitung des Leibniz-Instituts für ökologische Raumentwicklung (IÖR) die Grundlagen für neuartige, interaktive Informationsangebote. Ziel ist es, Grünflächen in Städten genauer zu beschreiben und zu zeigen, wie man sie gut erreichen kann. Nutzer der Grünflächen können diese bewerten und Stadtverwaltungen erhalten Hinweise auf Verbesserungspotenzial.…

  • HeiGIT/GIScience and German Red Cross formalize their partnership through Memorandum of Understanding

    We are happy to announce the now also formal cooperation of our GIScience research group and the German Red Cross (GRC)! On October 10th Christof Johnen, Head of International Cooperation at the GRC Headquarters and head of HeiGIT/GIScience Alexander Zipf signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the strategic partnership to conduct joint activities related…

  • The Dimension of a Space Can Be Inferred From the Abstract Network Structure

    Study shows that spatial reference can be structurally identified in a number of datasets F.-B. Mocnik: The Polynomial Volume Law of Complex Networks in the Context of Local and Global Optimization. Scientific Reports (2018) 8:11274, doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-29131-0 Networks describe relations between objects. They show how objects relate to one another and which ones are mutually…

  • Announcing the launch of our new HeiGIT website

    We are excited to announce that our new HeiGIT website is live! Visit us at www.heigit.org.

  • Cutting-edge 4D LiDAR research in local newspaper

    This morning, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (RNZ) published an article (in German) about our research on 4D LiDAR for snow cover monitoring. The angle for the article by Doris Burger is the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus near the summit of the Zugspitze, where members of the 3DGeo recently acquired a highly temporal 3D time series dataset of…

  • HeiGIT/GIScience partnership with Kathmandu Living Labs

    Kathmandu Living Labs– a team of young entrepreneurs and out of the box thinkers that change the use and creation of data in Nepal. The team around Nama Budhathoki was launched in 2013 and emerged of a previous Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) program. In the scope of the OpenDRI project, the team has…

  • GIScience News Blog Heidelberg among Top 60 GIS Blogs and Websites about Geographic Information Systems

    Recently Feedspot selected our GIScience News Blog Heidelberg http://giscience.uni-hd.de for the “top blogs in GIS” list. The Feedspot list is the most comprehensive list of Top 60 GIS Blogs on the internet. Thank you very much! We are happy to serve you with further most recent information about GIS research and related developments. You can…

  • LandSense is Project of the Week @ “Doing It Together Science”.

    The EU H2020 project LandSense (A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring) has been featured as project of the week by “Doing It Together Science“. http://togetherscience.eu/blog/project-of-the-week-10-landsense. Thanks to our partners at IASA etc. for this! In addition to organizing mapathons and related research research activities, in the context of…

  • HeiGIT/GIScience Heidelberg partnership with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

    We are happy to hereby announce the official partnership of the HeiGIT/GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)! The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University has been supporting the use of OpenStreetMap for humanitarian and disaster management purposes already since 2008 when the first instance of the Disaster and Emergency OpenRouteService was…

  • Analysing Accessibility of Amazon.com Logistics for all the US with OpenRouteService Isochrones API

    Recently Barrons studied the effect of Amazon.com buying Whole Foods for US$13.7 billion. They used the OpenRouteService Isochrones API for an detailed accessibility analysis of the whole US. With OpenStreetMap based OpenRouteService and US Census data they calculated how much US population is covered within different driving times from the US wide network of the 444 Whole…

  • Bernhard Höfle becomes new full professor for Geoinformatics and 3D Geoprocessing at Heidelberg University

    Since April 1st, 2017 Prof. Dr. Bernhard Höfle is the new full professor for “GIScience and 3D Spatial Data Processing” at the Institute for Geography, Heidelberg University. Last week he was formally introduced to the scientific community of Heidelberg University during the traditional “Professorium” event, which was moderated by Rector Prof. Eitel. The latter took…