Tag: DisasterMapping
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Heidelberg University press releases about Nepal Disaster OpenRouteService
Heidelberg University has published press releases about our work on providing specialized disaster routing and maps for the humanitarian aid organizations working in Nepal like the UN Logistics Cluster, USAid or the local KLL etc. The services based on OpenRouteService use the geodata provided by volunteers worldwide through OpenStreetMap. We also want to mention the…
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Nepal Disaster Mapping Heidelberg University
Following the earthquake which struck Nepal on April 25 hundreds of volunteers worldwide come together to map out disaster affected areas through the coordination of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and the local partner in Kathmandu, the Kathmandu Living Labs team. Disastermappers Heidelberg joined the efforts on monday evening by organizing a first mapping event.…
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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…
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City of Mannheim shows appreciation to Open Data engagement of GIScience group
On friday 3/13, Melanie Eckle, Steffen John and Stefan Hahmann of the GIScience group Heidelberg were invited to a special event at Mannheim town hall. The city of Mannheim showed appreciation to the engagement of the GIScience group during the Open Data Day in Mannheim. Melanie Eckle (distaster mappers Heidelberg) gave a presentation about the…
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GIScience group participated in Open Data Day Mannheim
Last Saturday (21/2) the GIScience group Heidelberg was part of the International Open Data Day. Open data enthusiasts all over the world teamed up to create new applications derived from open (not only governmental) data. The local open data day in Mannheim has seen 7 finished projects including Wikipedia edit wars analyses, public transport visualisations,…
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Disaster Mappers Heidelberg organize Talk on Humanitarian Mapping Technologies by Patrick Meier
Thanks to the initative of the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg, Patrick Meier, co-founder of the StandbyTaskForce and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will give a presentation on February 11th 2015 via videoconference at the Insitute of Geography, Großer Hörsaal, Berliner Straße 48, Heidelberg at 4pm. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about Disaster Mapping, Crisis Mapping…
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The Disaster Mappers Heidelberg look back at an exiting year 2014
Here you can find their Blogpost about last years crisis mapping activities. Congratulations and keep up the good work!
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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.…
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Collaboration with Kathmandu Living Labs: innovative teaching for improving resilience against disasters with collaborative maps
Germany is the leading country when it comes to OpenStreetMap (OSM), and here this online map as well as the OSM data are well recognized. But what about other parts of the world? What kind of possibilities can OSM offer for fostering development and building resilience against disasters? Last Friday the students attending of the…
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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).…
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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…
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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…