Category: OSM
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New Academy Project on Interdisciplinary Neogeography in Natural Hazard Analysis in Chile
The research project NEOHAZ – NEOgeography of a Digital Earth: Geoinformation Science as Methodological Bridge in Interdisciplinary Natural HAZard Analysis is funded by the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (HAW) and runs from 2014 till 2017. Project Description: The understanding of complex human-environment interactions via measuring and observing can only be…
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Exploiting Big VGI to Improve Routing and Navigation Services
Due to development of communication technologies, the amount of data, which each organization has to deal with, has been rapidly growing. The huge volumes of data appear as an opportunity to improve the performance and reliability of various applications, as such routing and navigation services can be named. However, the analysis of large datasets, commonly…
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Fusion of human and remote sensor data in urban environments
OpenStreetMap (OSM) currently represents the most popular project of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): geodata are collected by common people and made available for public use. Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) enables the acquisition of high-resolution digital elevation models that are used for many applications. Our new study combines the advantages of both ALS and OSM, offering…
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AGILE Workshop on Digital Earth: What the hack?
We invite you to participate in our workshop Digital Earth: What the hack?, as part of the 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 3-6 June 2014, Castellón, Spain. The proposed workshop will prepare hackathons including geospatial information and processing across a variety of possible disciplines and thereby implementing Digital Earth applications. Hackathons are a…
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More than 100 Million Buildings in OpenStreetMap
and therefore also in OSM-3D.org. Just before Christmas the number of building footprints hit the magical number of 100.000.000. “Building” has been for some time now the most frequently used tag defining a map feature in OpenStreetMap. We use the building footprints from OSM to generate an automatically updated special database of 3D buildings displayed…
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Digital Earth Science Forum “Digital Earth Innovations” at the University of Osnabrueck starts European cooperation
The International Digital Earth Science Forum organized by Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF), the Youth Commission of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE) and the Association for the Promotion of Geoinformatics in Nothern Germany (GiN e.V.) took place on 4th of December 2013 at the University of Osnabrueck inside the botanical garden.…
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Impressions from Friday’s Mapping Brunch
Our second Map-a-thon in support of the HOT activation for the Philippines was held on Friday. In a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, ~30 mappers attended the event. The department provided ample amounts of food and refreshments, many thanks to Svend and the Fachschaft for organizing/providing the cutlery, cooking plate and other equipment. A general introduction…
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The emergence and evolution of OpenStreetMap: A cellular automata approach
Collaborative mapping projects, such as OpenStreetMap (OSM), have received tremendous amounts of contributed data from voluntary participants over time. So far, most research efforts deal with data quality issues, but the OSM evolution across space and over time has not been noted. Therefore, a new study is dedicated to the evolution of the contributed information…
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Population distribution and Elements at Risk layers for Philippines now available
Knowing where people in need could be in a crisis situation is as crucial as it is difficult. Sometimes the difficulty is just not having a convenient way to display or access extant datasources.As a service to the crisis mappers we supply a Tile Service showing the residential population distribution in the Philipines in 90m…
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Mapping land-use from OpenStreetMap
An approach toward generating land-use patterns from volunteered geographic information (VGI) without applying remote-sensing techniques and/or engaging official data has just been published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Geographic Information Science. Collaboratively collected OpenStreetMap (OSM) data sets are employed to map land-use patterns. Initially the spatial pattern of the landscape was…
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OpenMapSurfer is OSM Image of the Week
A map rendering with hillshading by OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de is currently the OSM Image of the Week. It is featured on this weeks OpenStreetMap Wiki main page. Congratulations to our team member Maxim Rylov! The images shows the OpenMapSurfer Layer: “OSM Roads (new)” with “ASTER GDEM & SRTM Hillshade (experimental)” overlay. The region displayed is in Greece.…
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New PhD student position in GIScience
We offer a new position in the area of crowdsourcing of 3D geoinformation within the PhD Graduate School Crowdanalyser. More info can be found here: 2013_crowdanalyser_phd_position. Deadline: 30 Oct. 2013