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Integrating and Generalising Volunteered Geographic Information
Our book chapter contribution in “Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World” has appeared. Abstract: The availability of spatial data on the web has greatly increased through the availability of user-generated community data and geosensor networks. The integration of such multi-source data is providing promising opportunities, as integrated information is richer than can be…
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Visiting Professor Joao Porto is working on Disaster Mapping 2.0
Prof. Dr. Joao Porto, a computer scientist from University of Sao Paulo, Brazil has received a grant by Heidelberg University funded through the DFG Initiative of Excellence that allows him to stay as visiting professor at the GIScience Research Group of Heidelberg University through 2014 and then returning to Heidelberg several times until 2017. His…
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Merry Christmas!
The team of GIScience Heidelberg wishes a merry Christmas to all blog subscribers, visitors and everybody else who is interested in our group and research! Have some calm and relaxed days with your families and friends! Stay tuned: The new year will bring more exciting stories from the fascinating world of GIScience!
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Members of GIScience research group receive the best paper and presentation award of SCCH’2013 Conference
The fourth conference on Scientific Computing and Cultural Heritage (SCCH) 2013 organized by Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp) took place on 18th of November 2013 at the University of Heidelberg. This conference brought together scientists from computer science and applied mathematics on the one hand and researchers…
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Towards a Comprehensive Framework for Intrinsic Quality Analysis in OpenStreetMap
As one of the most popular examples of a Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) project OpenStreetMap (OSM) has more and more become a serious alternative for geodata. Since the quality of OSM data can vary strongly, different aspects have been investigated in several scientific studies. In most cases the data is compared with commercial or administrative…
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Full House at Conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” in Heidelberg
Die Fachtagung “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” am 17.10.2013 im Studio der Villa Bosch stößt auf erfreulich hohe Resonanz. Da die Zahl der Sitzplätze beschränkt ist und schon über 90 Teilnehmer angemeldet sind, können leider keine weiteren Anmeldungen mehr angenemmen genommen werden. Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis.
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AGILE PhD School, 2013
Lucy from the GIScience group had the opportunity to participate at the 2nd AGILE PhD school, a forum for PhD students to discuss their research studies, exchange ideas and experiences, and identify possibilities for collaborative research. The school which was organized by the AGILE group took place between 30 September and 02 October 2013 at…
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Bernhard Höfle became Member of the Executive Committee of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE)
Bernhard Höfle has been appointed as new member of the Executive Committee of the Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) at the University of Heidelberg. The Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE) combines a wide range of environmental perspectives including natural sciences, social sciences and cultural studies. It focuses on humans’ physical and socio-cultural environments…
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Draft Programme for conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”
A first draft list of talks and presentations for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” (17.10.2013, Heidelberg, Studio Villa Bosch) is available. In addition there will be several short presentations during the workshop-part of the event. This is a draft programme subject to change: some titles are still working titles.…
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Alexander Zipf invited to Editoral Board of “Future Internet”
“Future Internet” (ISSN 1999-5903), a scholarly open access journal on Internet technologies and the information society, is published by MDPI online quarterly. Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Andrew Hudson-Smith, Director and Reader in Digital Urban Systems, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. Future Internet increasingly publishes research about the relationship on Geographic Information and Web…
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“Transaction in GIS” 2012 Impact Factor increased to 0.906
The latest Thomson Reuters ISI Journal Citation Report has just been released and the ISI Impact Factor (IF) for the international journal “Transaction in GIS” has increased considerably to 0.906 for 2012 (from 0.54 in 2011). Great news!
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Better Access to Traffic Information – Kick-Off Meeting in new Project
Last week there was the Kick-Off Meeting at the new traffic management center NRW in the project Mobility Data Market (MDM) which is dealing with managing and making available traffic related information in NRW, in particular also using OpenStreetMap.