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  • 7th International Conference on Cartography & GIS

    The 7th International Conference on Cartography & GIS took place at Sozopol (Bulgaria) 18-23 June 2018. It was organized by Bulgarian Cartographic Association, International Cartographic Association and University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG), Sofia and co-organizers – Military Geographic Service, Bulgaria, and Bulgarian Red Cross. The main topics of the conference were: GIS…

  • Big Point Clouds == Deep Information? Current Progress in Geospatial 3D/4D Point Cloud Analysis

    The Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información – CiTIUS of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Prof. Rivera) is hosting a workshop on 27 September 2018, which is dedicated to the current research progress in LiDAR data analysis and shall bring together academic research and industry. Prof. Bernhard Höfle, head of the 3DGeo…

  • GSIS Special Issue on Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics has been published

    GSIS Special Issue: Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics. Geo-Spatial Information Science (GSIS), Volume 23, Issue 3. Taylor & Francis. Guest Editors: Hongchao Fan, Rene Westerholt, João Porto de Albuquerque, Bernd Resch and Alexander Zipf TOC: Do people communicate about their whereabouts? Investigating the relation between user-generated text messages and Foursquare check-in places Ming Li, Rene Westerholt & Alexander…

  • How big is OSM? Estimating the size of OpenStreetMap’s history

    In this blog post we report a small study on the size of the OpenStreetMap history data set, which we carried out in the context of developing the OSHDB. We estimated the size of OSM’s history in terms of raw data as it would be represented in a systems programming language such as C or…

  • Mamapa goes Ludwigshafen – join us today

    Heute Abend stellen Robert Danziger (Mamapa) und Melanie Eckle (disastermappers heidelberg/ HeiGIT) in Ludwigshafen das Mamapa Projekt vor. Zudem erläutern sie die Potenziale von OpenStreetMap (OSM) und illustrieren, wie OSM eingesetzt und wie zu OSM beigetragen werden kann. Donnerstag, 20. September 2018, 18.00 Uhr Zentralbibliothek Schulungsraum Weitere Informationen hier und unter 0621 504-3533, der Eintritt ist frei. Wer…

  • Openrouteservice.org at INTERGEO 2018

    We are happy to announce that we are going to be part of INTERGEO 2018 in Frankfurt this year. This event being the “global hub of the geospatial community” has quite something to offer with hundreds and hundreds of innovative companies showcasing their products and visions. We are joining up with the Federal Agency for…

  • CALL FOR PAPERS: GIS track of ISCRAM 2019, 16th. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Valencia Spain

    Call for papers ISCRAM is a forum where researchers and practitioners from all around the world meet every year to share experiences and raise challenges in all the aspects related to the design, development, and use of information systems to improve the management of crisis and disaster situations. The 16th International Conference on Information Systems…

  • Missing Maps Gathering, FOSS4G and HOT Summit 2018 in Dar es Salaam

    As previously announced, Sabrina Marx and Melanie Eckle recently visited Dar es Salaam to attend the Missing Maps Members Gathering and to join the FOSS4G and HOT Summit community for their joint annual gatherings. The Missing Maps Members Gathering was the first side event of the conference week. Likewise to previous years, the Missing Maps…

  • Workshop at the ‘Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge’

    Only two days left to register for the Fachtagung Katastrophenvorsorge in Berlin, 22. – 23. October 2018. Join our workshop on Geoninformation & Disaster Prepardness, which we are running together with the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). The Symposium is organized by the German Red…

  • Capturing Flood Risk Perception via Sketch Maps

    The flood risk perception of people living in areas at risk can be a valuable source of information for mitigation and preparedness within disaster management. We apply a method based on sketch maps and questionnaires to capture this flood risk perception during case studies in Santiago de Chile. Results of our study can be found…

  • Call for Participation: PLATIAL’18 Heidelberg – WORKSHOP ON PLATIAL ANALYSIS – 20/21.September 2018

    Dear colleagues, Time is flying and the PLATIAL’18 workshop is getting closer and closer! Next week we are looking forward to an interesting and varied programme of talks in Heidelberg. They will discuss place-related topics ranging from philosophical questions to visualization. In addition, we are pleased to present two confirmed keynote speakers: Dr Clare Davies…

  • Keynote on VGI and AI for Disaster Management by Prof. Zipf at 10 Years HAUS New York

    Heidelberg Alumni USA (HAUS) is the alumni initiative for all former students, lecturers, professors or staff of Heidelberg University who live or work in the US. HAUS was born in New York City, and that’s where we will celebrate the tenth anniversary the weekend of September 14-16, 2018. We hope you will be there for…

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