GIScience Logo
HeiGIT Logo
3DGeo Logo

GIScience Blog

Category: VGI Group

  • GIScience HD contributes to Int. Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

    GIScience Heidelberg regularily contributes to the ISCRAM conferences. This year we again have four papers dealing with different aspects on crowdsoured geographic information (e.g. OpenStreetMap) in disaster response and management (e.g. OpenFloodRiskMap). Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Alberquerque, J., Leiner, R., Wolff, R., Jacobs, C., Zipf, A. (2016): Leveraging OpenStreetMap to support flood risk management: A…

  • disastermappers heidelberg and GIScience meeting Missing Maps in London to foster collaboration and partnership

    Last week, Carolin Klonner, Benjamin Herfort, Melanie Eckle (GIScience Heidelberg and disastermappers heidelberg), Svend-Jonas Schelhorn, Christof Nichterlein (disastermappers heidelberg), Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque (GIScience Heidelberg and Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick) and Roberto Rocha (University of Münster) travelled to London to meet the Missing Maps team. During a one and a…

  • GIScience HD contributes to Crisis Mapping Workshop for the “Natural Risk in a Changing World“ Spring School at Potsdam University

    Last Friday, 18th March, Carolin Klonner and Melanie Eckle of the GIScience Research Group were invited to give a workshop on “Crisis Mapping with OpenStreetMap” in scope of the DFG Graduate School “Natural Risk in a Changing World” Spring School at the University of Potsdam. The PhD candidates were introduced to current research and practices…

  • Evaluation of EU project on Improving Accessibility with OpenStreetMap

    The second year evaluation meeting of CAP4Access project took place on February 17th, 2016 at European Commission in Brussels. Representatives of all project partners presented the results and work-in-progress of their tasks for the second year of the project, followed by questions from two external reviewers appointed by the European Commission. From CAP4Access team at GIScience…

  • MyAccessible.EU OpenStreetMap Tools for People with Reduced Mobility Released

    As part of the MyAccessible.EU project (CAP4Access) several tools have been developed at GIScience in Heidelberg. These tools aim at collecting information about accessibility of places and to assist in movement through environments for people with reduced mobility. These tools include a mobile (Android) and web application for the collection and display of obstacles in…

  • GIScience got the mayor

    On last Thursday (17.12.), the GIScience group participated in a discussion about open data in Heidelberg within the city’s #getthemayor series. The discussion was initiated by the Open Data Rhein Neckar activists (thanks to Oliver Rack). Melanie Eckle, student assistent in the CAP4Access project, contributed by articulating our needs for open data from the perspective…

  • Save the Date: Link-VGI: LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms, Workshop at AGILE 2016 Conference

    Our workshop proposal for the 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016 in Helsinki has been accepted. Save the date: June 14th 2016 in Helsinki Finland. The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is continuously growing, providing massive datasets of georeferenced content that is either actively contributed (e.g. adding…

  • 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…

  • Castle accessibility mapping is part of a short documentary

    Our efforts related to the mapping of the accessibility of places and ways at Heidelberg castle are now part of a short documentary produced by Beirat von Menschen mit Behinderung Heidelberg (Advisory Board of people with disabilities Heidelberg), with whom we cooperate in the scope of the CAP4ACCESS project. As a follow-up of this event,…

  • GIScience HD participated in 1st International Land Use Symposium

    Between November 11-13 our group actively participated in the 1st edition of the International Land Use Symposium (#ILUS2015) held in Dresden. The symposium was organized by the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IÖR, also based in Dresden), who greatly braved the challenges of organizing this symposium for the first time and who…

  • New DFG Project on Data Integration from Location Based Social Networks

    Recently a new project has been accepted to be funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). It deals with an agent-based and quality-aware integration of geo-social network data, thus investigating data integration as a collaborative negotiation process. Web-based social networks are now a significant social phenomenon. The user-generated data produced through them, including the location-based data,…

  • Merging volunteered and expert accessibility data

    On Tuesday 13 October, we have been more than happy to host volunteers of SAP in the course of the “SAP month of service” as our guests. They have supported us to merge volunteered data about accessibility from wheelmap.org and expert data about accessibility from Heidelberg Hürdenlos (a local accessibility platform). Heidelberg Hürdenlos contains more…