Category: OSM
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Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement
Vorankündigung / Save the Date: Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement am 17.10.2013 in Heidelberg (Studio Villa Bosch) Nicht nur vor dem Hintergrund des diesjährigen „Jahrhunderthochwassers“ befasst sich die Fachtagung mit der Frage wie Freiwillige und Nicht-Fachkräfte mittels sozialer Medien und moderner Web-basierter Methoden bei der Erfassung und Kommunikation aktueller Vor-Ort-Informationen…
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TV Spot about OpenStreetMap
Some weeks ago a TV team recorded a short TV spot at our research group (we reported about that earlier). It was subjected to the OpenStreetMap project and some of its possible applications. Today it has been broadcast on ARD. For those who are interested in, but unfortunately missed it, the spot can be found…
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Explore Science! How to make your own Map
“Fascinating Earth” is this year’s topic of the Explore Science days. This project of the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation aims at interesting children and pupils for the natural sciences – this year in particular Geosciences. It takes place each year for a week at Luisenpark Mannheim. Prof. Zipf will present on Friday morning (28.06.2013) how anybody – even…
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Linux Magazine mentions our new OSM study
A report in the German language Linux Magazine about our latest OSM study (Open Access).
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We congratulate our visiting fellow Dr. Michael Vetter for his PhD
Yesterday, Michael Vetter received his PhD from the Vienna University of Technology for his thesis “Airborne laser scanning terrain and land cover models as basis for hydrological and hydraulic studies”. Michael was visiting fellow in our research group in summer 2011 and performed parts of his thesis together with the LiDAR Research Group of the…
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New analysis about OpenStreetMap data
Two new Journal papers on OSM just have been published. One deals with a “Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Contributions and Community Development for Selected World Regions” (Open Access) and one is about OSM Data imports in the US. Pascal gives some additional and up2date information here. Enjoy Reading!
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GIScience Offices Have Been Transformed Into a TV Studio
On Monday the 27th of May a camera team from the NDR visited the offices of the GIScience Research Group. The intent was to produce an introduction to the OpenStreetMap project and its potential for different applications like for instance special needs routing (such as rollstuhlrouting.de as a special version of OpenRouteService.org), emergency management and Disaster…