Category: Press release
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Accessible route planning and #MapMyDay presented at Bürgerfest Heidelberg
Last Sunday (10th January 2016), we actively participated in the “Bürgerfest Heidelberg” (citizen festival of Heidelberg), which this year took place in the area of the Campbell Barracks (former US barracks), which have been opened to the public recently. The festival had ~12.000 visitors. Quite a lot of them also found their way to the…
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ruprecht reports about CAP4Access activities
“ruprecht”, the Heidelberg University’s student newspaper (~10.000 copies), reports about CAP4Access activities in its current issue (page 11, in German). We hope that some of the readers get interested in MapMyDay.org and OpenStreetMap.org and perhaps become new active contributors, which in the long run would also be beneficial for the wheelchair profile on OpenRouteService.org. Enjoy…
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Support für Wheelmap – #MapMyDay
Unser CAP4Access Projektpartner, der Berliner Verein Sozialhelden e.V., entwickelt seit mehreren Jahren die online frei verfügbare „Wheelmap.org“. Diese Karte basiert auf der OpenStreetMap und wird von Freiwilligen erstellt, die Informationen über die Barrierefreiheit von Orten, die sie schon selbst besucht haben, eintragen. Die Wheelmap enthält die Ziele, die barrierefrei erreicht werden können, unser OpenRouteService Wheelchair…
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Lajos-Lóczy-Medal for Prof. Peter Meusburger
Senior Professor distinctus Dr. Dr.h.c. Peter Meusburger recently received the honorable Lajos Lóczy Plaque. This medal is awarded to him by the Hungarian Geographical Society for his contribution to the Hungarian geography. It is the highest scientific award of the Hungarian geography. Congratulations Peter!
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Again New University Rankings: “Heidelberg is the best university in Germany and surges ahead to 37th worldwide”
Heidelberg University reports: According to a recent report the Best Global Universities Ranking ranks Heidelberg University as the best university in Germany and 37th worldwide. Just recently the Times Higher Education Ranking (THE) had been published. Also there it has been announced that Heidelberg University scored at place 37 internationally and place 2 in Germany.…
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“Transactions in GIS” increases Impact Factor by nearly 40%
We are happy to learn and inform that the Impact Factor (IF) of the International Journal “Transactions in GIS” according to the new ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking (Thomson Reuters 2015) has seen a nearly 40% increase from 1.000 to 1.398 from 2013 to 2014. The new IF means that “Transactions in GIS” is…
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Bernd Resch receives Theodor-Körner Award
At a ceremony at the University of Vienna Bernd Resch (Heidelberg University and University of Salzburg) received the Theodor-Körner Award in the category of medicine, natural sciences and technology. The Price was awarded by the Austrian Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology (bmvit). In his work, Bernd Resch focuses on assessing human emotions with a…
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New Portal for GeoNet.MRN – the Network Geoinformation of the Metropole Region Rhine-Neckar e.V.
Recently the new portal for GeoNet.MRN – the “Network Geoinformation of the Metropole Region Rhine-Neckar e.V.” has been published at http://www.geonet-mrn.de. It is based on the Enterprise Portal technology of the GeoNet.MRN member Fasihi GmbH Ludwigshafen. Thanks to Fasihi for this kind support! The portal includes news and events by GeoNet.MRN e.V itself and also…
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Heidelberg University press releases about Nepal Disaster OpenRouteService
Heidelberg University has published press releases about our work on providing specialized disaster routing and maps for the humanitarian aid organizations working in Nepal like the UN Logistics Cluster, USAid or the local KLL etc. The services based on OpenRouteService use the geodata provided by volunteers worldwide through OpenStreetMap. We also want to mention the…
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Disaster OpenRouteService for Nepal
Facing the most severe earthquake for the past decades, Nepal and especially the Kathmandu area show unimagineable devastations. In order to provide emergency and rescue forces with near real time information concerning infrastructural conditions of roads and buildings the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) as part of the OpenStreetMap Community coordinates the crisis mapping activities for…
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CAP4Access e-Newsletter No. 2, 2015 (Part 2) – toilets, survey, crowdcrafting and news
This is the Second Part of the CAP4Access e-Newsletter No 2. 2015. The First Part can be found here. (It needed to be splitted in two parts for technical reasons) Finding accessible toilets made easy People in wheelchairs and other people with mobility impairments must be able to find an accessible toilet when needed. What…
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CAP4Access e-Newsletter No. 2 – 2015 (Part 1, Geoinfo for Mobility Impaired
CAP4Access e-Newsletter No. 2, 2015 (Part 1) First tools released + + + “Mapping parties” raise awareness for disability issues Dear Readers, The CAP4Access project has kick-started its second year by publishing first versions of a range of tools. They are intended to raise awareness about accessibility of the built environment and for providing concrete…