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  • Disaster Mapping for the Philippines – continued: Munch in HD @ Friday!

    Aufgrund der großen Nachfrage nach einer schnellen Wiederholung des Mapping-Events vom vergangenen Donnerstag laden die Disaster Mappers Heidelberg am kommenden Freitag, 22.11.2013, um 11:00 zum Mapping Brunch (=”Munch”) in den Großen Hörsaal der Berliner Straße 48 ein. Wir werden aktuelle relevante Gebiete auf den Philippinen kartieren. Gleichzeitig habt Ihr die Gelegenheit, an einem Mapping-Experiment teilzunehmen:…

  • Impressions and results from Haiyan Crisis Mapathon at Heidelberg University

    UPDATE: An additional Mapathon will take place on Friday 22nd 2013 from 11.00 onwards in the lecture hall of the Department of Geography, Berliner Str. 48, Heidelberg University. CrisisMapping by volunteers is on the rise and and an more and more important contribution to professional disaster management. This has also been confirmed within our conference…

  • Damaged buildings from OSM and Instagram images added to Philipines CrisisMap

    In addition to the map layers showing population density elements at risk as explained below we added new map layers displaying damaged buildings and impassable roads (OSM) as well as geolocated images from Instagram to our crisismap at crisismap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de. The data is updated regularily. Thanks to all contributors! please be patient for the buildings layer…

  • WebMapping for Disaster Relief after Typhoon Yolanda

    In order to support the disaster management activities after the typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan a new WebSite http://crisismap.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/ has been set up by GIScience Heidelberg that visualizes the new map layers described earlier: the “Elements at Risk” and “Population Distribution” for the Philipines. Further it adds a currently less populated Flickr layer and a storm surge layer…

  • 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…

  • Uni Heidelberg “OSM Mapathon” for Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan: Thursday afternoon, November 14th 2013

    UPDATE: First Impressions from the Mapathon Thursday 14th can be found here. UPDATE2: An additional Mapathon will take place on Friday 22nd 2013 in the lecture hall of the Department of Geography, Berliner Str. 48, Heidelberg University. In order to to support the crisis mappers with better geographic information and maps for the regions affected…

  • OSM Response to Typhoon Haiyan

    An new interactive visualization by our colleague Pascal Neis shows the latest changes to the OpenStreetMap database in the Philippines. This can help to identify areas where the OSM crisis mapper community is already activen and those where further contibutions are needed. Only OSM changesets in the Philippines and some parts of the Vietnam coast…

  • CrisisMapping Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)

    Typhoon Haiyan (also called Yolanda) has hit the Phillipines killing likely over 1000 people and is approaching Vietnam and Laos. The crisis mapper communities have reacted fast and started to map the affected areas in OpenStreetMap such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) and the Standby Task Force (SBTF) is officially deploying in response to…

  • Some Impressions from the Conference on Social Media in Disaster Management in Heidelberg

    Here you find some first impressions from our very successful conference on Web 2.0 and social media in disaster management that we organized in Heidelberg on October 17th. Here you find the presentations.

  • Presentations from Conference on Web 2.0 & Social Media in Disaster Management are online

    The presentations from the conference “Web 2.0 and Social Media in Disaster- and Flodd Management” are online below. Most presentations are in German. We thank all speakers for making the documents available! Ronald Voigt (Landratsamt Meißen): “Kurzbericht zu Erfahrungen aus dem Hochwasser 2013” Voigt_Erfahrungsbericht Claudia Schorr / Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – Generalsekretariat Berlin: “Die Rolle…

  • Aktuelles Programm Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement

    Das Programm für die Fachtagung “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” am 17.10.2013 wurde aktualisiert und ist nun online verfügbar. Erfreulicherweise konnten zahlreiche hochkarätige Referenten gewonnen werden, so dass ein spannender Austausch zwischen Forschung und Praxis zu erwarten ist. Wir freuen uns sehr auf Ihre Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung im Studio Villa…

  • Pressemitteilung der Universität zur Fachtagung: “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”

    Am 17.10.2013 findet in Heidelberg ganztags die Fachtagung “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” statt. Hierzu hat die Universität aktuell eine Pressemitteilung veröffentlicht. Noch ist Gelegenheit sich für diese spannende Veranstaltung anzumelden und an den Diskussionen teilzunehmen.