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  • Disaster OpenRouteService for Nepal

    Facing the most severe earthquake for the past decades, Nepal and especially the Kathmandu area show unimagineable devastations. In order to provide emergency and rescue forces with near real time information concerning infrastructural conditions of roads and buildings the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) as part of the OpenStreetMap Community coordinates the crisis mapping activities for…

  • Disaster Mapping for Nepal this Monday 17:00 Heidelberg University

    On Saturday Nepal was hit by a massive earthquake that devastated large parts of Kathmandu as well as many suburbs and remote mountain villages and towns. A few hours later the first mapping actions were started by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.). These are coordinated with the Kathmandu Living Labs team, a resident of Kathmandu…

  • OpenStreetMap and Mapsurfer.NET help to search for missing people

    We know many examples when VGI data (e.g., OpenStreetMap, Wikimapia, etc.) help to cope with effects of various humanitarian disasters all over the world. The reason of using open crowd-sourced data is clear. The geographic data are available for free. If, for some reason, data are missing for a specific region, it is not a…

  • Heidelberg Crisis Mappers Colloquium next Wednesday

    Here you find a report on the last Mapping Party at Heidelberg University organized by the Heidelberg Crisis Mappers with Kate Chapman, the Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) giving a lecture and then there is an invitation to join the upcoming Crisis Mapping Colloquium on Wednesday (26 Nov 2014, 16-18 clock, Dep.…

  • London – Washington D.C. – Jakarta – San Francisco – Heidelberg?! MissingMaps Project

    Putting the world’s most vulnerable people on a map and thereby reduce the vulnerability of disaster prone regions before they can even cause serious harm – that is the objective of the MissingMaps Project. A great idea put together by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), British and American Red Cross and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team (HOT).…

  • Disaster Mapping Party Heidelberg – contribute to Missing Maps project

    Dear friends of Disaster Mapping, to a great start in the DisasterMappers Colloquium on the last Wednesday of each now has the first chance to become active. Together with MSF, British and American Red Cross and HOT OSM we want to celebrate the start of the Missing Maps Project also in Heidelberg. As DisasterMappers, we…

  • New project started: OpenFloodRiskMap

    Flood emergency planning is a challenging task for many municipalities throughout the world, and particularly in Europe. Not only because there is no common methodology on how to detect the critical infrastructure that must be taking into account in emergency plans, but as well because of the fact that the changing flood-risk situation requires constant…

  • Natural Disasters 2.0: Video about VGI in Disaster Management at Reiss-Engelhorn Museum in Mannheim

    How can new mobile technologies and social media open up new ways of social engagement and support before, during and in the aftermath of a disaster? This question is the leitmotiv of the video called “Naturkatastrophen 2.0” (Natural Disasters 2.0), created by Melanie Eckle and Benjamin Herfort, two undergraduate research assistants of the GIScience group,…

  • Mon-Shieh Yang from Taiwan joins GIScience Team

    Mr. Mon-Shieh Yang, a senior PhD candidate from the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Department of Earth Sciences, has been awarded a grant of the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan to join the LiDAR Research Group (LRG) of the Chair of GIScience Heidelberg from July 2014 to April 2015. His research will focus on…

  • New exchange graduate student assistant from the University of São Paulo/Brazil

    We are pleased to receive Luiz Fernando Assis as an exchange graduate student assistant at the GIScience research group. Luiz Fernando is pursuing his Masters’ in Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of São Paulo in Brazil under the supervision of Prof. Dr. João Porto de Albuquerque, who…

  • 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…

  • Eine Nachlese zur Fachtagung: Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement

    Am 17. Oktober 2013 fand im Studio der Villa Bosch in Heidelberg die Fachtagung „Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement“ statt. Die Veranstaltung konnte nicht zuletzt durch die großzügige Unterstützung der Klaus-Tschira-Stiftung und dem HochwasserKompetenzCentrum (HKC) mit Erfolg und den Rückmeldungen zufolge zur Zufriedenheit der Teilnehmer durchgeführt werden. Sie wurde gemeinsam von…