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  • PsychoGeography Project on Television

    During the last decades, the epidemiological research has given indications that mental diseases can be related to socio-economic, as well as to environmental risk factors. In cooperation between the newly founded Psychiatric-Epidemiological Centrum (PEZ) at the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, the GIScience Research Group (Heidelberg University) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology…

  • You can follow us also on Facebook or Twitter

    We whish you the most happy and successfull New Year! Now you can follow the news from our GIScienceBlog about recent results and activities in Geoinformatics and GIScience also via Facebook or Twitter – just as you prefer. Hope you like it 😉 Of course you still can use the RSS-Feed, too. Enjoy reading. All…

  • GIScience group covered by Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung

    Our #mapforaccess mapping party has been covered in yesterdays issue of the local newspaper Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (~80,000 copies per day in the Rhine-Neckar region). Enjoy reading! (Click to enlarge) Online version here.

  • Invitation Conference “Fachaustausch Geoinformation Heidelberg” 29.10.2014

    bereits zum sechsten Mal veranstaltet das Geoinformationsnetzwerk der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar GmbH GeoNet.MRN den Fachaustausch Geoinformation in Heidelberg. Die Veranstaltung dient dem Erfahrungsaustausch zwischen Interessenten, Experten, Nutzern und Entscheidungsträgern aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Politik und Verwaltung über Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und aktuelle Themen in der Geoinformationswirtschaft. Als Partner präsentiert sich das Virtual Dimension Center Fellbach. Neben den Themen Geodaten…

  • High Rankings for Heidelberg University

    While this is a bit off-subject it might be interesting to know that Heidelberg University as a whole scored again very well in the latest international university rankings: According to both QS World University Ranking and Shanghai Ranking it is again the best university in Germany and increased it’s worldwide ranking to 49.

  • Natural Disasters 2.0: Video about VGI in Disaster Management at Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim

    How can new mobile technologies and social media open up new ways of social engagement and support before, during and in the aftermath of a disaster? This question is the leitmotiv of the video called “Naturkatastrophen 2.0” (Natural Disasters 2.0), created by Melanie Eckle and Benjamin Herfort, two undergraduate research assistants of the GIScience group,…

  • OpenMapSurfer named as “Remarkable Map” by German Cartographic Society (DGfK)

    The German site “Die bemerkenswerte Karte” (The Remarkable Map) by the German Cartographic Society (DGfK) reports about OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de as a remarkable OSM base map, because of it’s unique combination of high information density on the one hand and appealing aesthetics on the other hand. In particular the high quality automated label placement algorithms implemented in…

  • The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio reports about our VGI research

    The Chilean newspaper El Mercurio has released an article about Heidelberg’s research on VGI and Neogeography in their Science and Technology section in the issue of 14 July 2014. El Mercurio, Santiago de Chile (No. 41.265), p. A11: Neogeografía: La geografía evoluciona al alero de las redes sociales.