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  • Missing Maps Mapathon at Makerspace (DAI) – OSM for Malaria Elimination

    Many regions of our world are not covered on a map. Maps are however an important tool for planning vaccination campaigns and for ensuring medical supplies. Places that are not covered in a map are in many cases nonexistent for authorities and other organizations. We want to change this situation – with your help- and…

  • GIScience / disastermappers heidelberg in “Jetzt” magazine of Süddeutsche Zeitung

    Last week we had a special guest for our New Years Mapathon: Nadja Schlüter, a journalist of the popular youth magazine “Jetzt” of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Nadja had heard about the Missing Maps related activities at our institute during an interview with MSF UK and visited us to learn more about our work and disaster…

  • Mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil

    We want to welcome the year 2017 with a mapathon for MSF and the people of Aweil! When: 19.01.2017, 18:00 Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48 This time we will focus on Aweil, the capital of South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal State. The region is home to tens of thousands of people, many of whom…

  • Heidelberg, Potsdam, Karakol: Christmas Mapping Party Results

    On Thursday, 08.12.2016, a Christmas mapping party took place at the Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University. Karakol, a city in the Kyrgyz Republic was herein mapped in cooperation with the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ-Potsdam). Supported by the World Bank, the Bishkek-based Central Asian Institute of Applied Science (CAIAG) and the GFZ Potsdam are…

  • Christmas Mapping event in cooperation with GFZ to support earthquake management in Kyrgyzstan

    Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, in the upcoming week we want to invite you to our last Mapathon of the year 2016! When: 08.12.2016, 18:00 Where: Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48 In this mapping event we will map buildings and other infrastructures in Karakol, the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan, which is located in a seismically active area…

  • Keynote at GEOINFO 2016 Brazil

    This week Alexander Zipf was giving an invited keynote presentation at the 18th Geoinfo Conference in Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil. The GEOINFO conferences aim to bring together leading GIScience and spatial database researchers, to present to the local community a perspective of the state-of-the-art in the area. Past speakers have included Max Egenhofer,…

  • OSM GeoWeek contributions from Heidelberg to support climate change preparedness programs

    In the context of the international OpenStreetMap Geography Awareness Week,  last Thursay, 17th November 2016, another mapping event was organized at the Geographical Institute of Heidelberg University. Sava, a region in the north of Madagascar, was herein mapped in cooperation with Missing Maps and the French NGO CartONG. Madagascar is as one of the poorest…

  • HOT Summit MapSwipe and Pybossa Video Online

    The presentations of this years HOT summit that was held in Brussels (September 22, 2016) were recorded and are now available in the Youtube channel of HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. If you missed the summit and are interested in what we are doing, have a look at the video of the joint presentation of…

  • GIScience at CartONG GeOnG Conference 2016

    The last couple of days the pictuesque city of Chambery became a gathering place for humanitarian actors, researchers and organizations. CartONG organized their biannual GeOnG conference in their headquarter city. This years conference was at the same time the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the NGO. CartONG is a French non-governmental organization that fosters the…

  • HeiGIT is starting to move into Mathematikon

    recently the first few members of the Navigation Intelligence and Location Based Services group of the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) – which is currently being established based on core funding from the Klaus-Tschira Foundation Heidelberg – moved into their new offices at Mathematikon Heidelberg. The group works on services like OpenRouteService and related…

  • European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

    Recently, a new open access handbook edited by Capineri, et.al and supported by the European Commission – COST Action IC1203 (ENERGIC) has been published. This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and…

  • MapSwipe App for humanitarian mapping featured in Product Hunt today

    today MapSwipe is featured in “Product Hunt”, a kind of reddit for products. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/mapswipe Learn more about the smartphone App that helps you to put a family on the map. It is so simple even children can use it but helps humanitarian organisations like the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders to better plan and…