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  • Accessible route planning and #MapMyDay presented at Bürgerfest Heidelberg

    Last Sunday (10th January 2016), we actively participated in the “Bürgerfest Heidelberg” (citizen festival of Heidelberg), which this year took place in the area of the Campbell Barracks (former US barracks), which have been opened to the public recently. The festival had ~12.000 visitors. Quite a lot of them also found their way to the…

  • OpenRouteService used by Brandenburg Business Guide

    OSM based OpenRouteService.org by GIScience Heidelberg is beeing used for calculating travel times to different locations simultaneously (star routing) in the official web portal of the Brandenburg Business Guide by the Ministry of Economics and Energy of the German state Brandenburg.

  • OpenRouteService.org Update with full Coverage for Eurasia, Africa and Australia

    Just before Christmas OSM-based OpenRouteService.org has seen some significant enhancements and new features, in particular live traffic data for Germany, improved route profiles, new leaflet client with height profiles for bike routing, a beta wheelchair profile and more. See Details: http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de/2015/12/22/new-openrouteservice-now-with-live-traffic-data-improved-route-profiles-new-leaflet-client-and-more Since then some further updates, improvements and bug fixes have been made by the…

  • MyAccessible.EU OpenStreetMap Tools for People with Reduced Mobility Released

    As part of the MyAccessible.EU project (CAP4Access) several tools have been developed at GIScience in Heidelberg. These tools aim at collecting information about accessibility of places and to assist in movement through environments for people with reduced mobility. These tools include a mobile (Android) and web application for the collection and display of obstacles in…

  • New OpenRouteService now with live traffic data, improved route profiles, new Leaflet client and more!

    Today we want to introduce several new features in OpenRouteService: OpenRouteService.org now offers live traffic information in Germany provided by the The Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt). Every 5 minutes the traffic information is updated and refreshed on the map. Every segment containing a traffic information is colored and has clickable icons with more information.…

  • ruprecht reports about CAP4Access activities

    “ruprecht”, the Heidelberg University’s student newspaper (~10.000 copies), reports about CAP4Access activities in its current issue (page 11, in German). We hope that some of the readers get interested in MapMyDay.org and OpenStreetMap.org and perhaps become new active contributors, which in the long run would also be beneficial for the wheelchair profile on OpenRouteService.org. Enjoy…

  • Scientific Computing and Open Data, 10th Modelling Day Heidelberg

    Tomorrow on Dezember 3rd 2015 the “10th Modelling Day” will take place in the “Print Media Academy” in Heidelberg. Start is at 14:00pm. This years overarching topic is “Open Data”. There will be three contributions related to GIScience Heidelberg: – Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf will talk about “Challenges and Potential of Open Geodata for Geographic…

  • Support für Wheelmap – #MapMyDay

    Unser CAP4Access Projektpartner, der Berliner Verein Sozialhelden e.V., entwickelt seit mehreren Jahren die online frei verfügbare „Wheelmap.org“. Diese Karte basiert auf der OpenStreetMap und wird von Freiwilligen erstellt, die Informationen über die Barrierefreiheit von Orten, die sie schon selbst besucht haben, eintragen. Die Wheelmap enthält die Ziele, die barrierefrei erreicht werden können, unser OpenRouteService Wheelchair…

  • Save the Date: 10. Modellierungstag “Open Data” Heidelberg

    On Dezember 3rd 2015 the “10th Modelling Day” will take place in the “Print Media Academy” in Heidelberg. Start is at 14:00pm . From GIScience Heidelberg there will be two contributions: Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf will talk about “Herausforderungen und Potenziale offener Geodaten für räumliche Modellierungen in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft” and Benjamin Herfort gives a…

  • Workshop bridging OSM community and Wheelchair Users

    Our EU project CAP4Access (MyAccessible.EU) has organized a first international expert workshop during the 5th International Congress on “Tourism for All” in Madrid on 23 September, 2015. The 5th International Congress on Tourism for All has been held in Madrid from September 23 to 25. The first CAP4Access international expert workshop was organized during this…

  • What’s New in OpenRouteService

    We have recently rolled out new features in OpenRouteService. In this blog post, we give a short overview of the most interesting changes and improvements. Over years we constantly receive a feedback from users via e-mails. Furthermore, starting from this year, it is possible to report about bugs and request new features using github. As…

  • GIScience HD @ Intergeo

    In addition to our previously announced presentation, the GIScience group Heidelberg is also represented with a stand at the Intergeo. We present a variety of outcomes of our efforts from throughout the last years. These include, among others, spatial media analysis, OSM.3D and our highly recognized OpenRouteService or OpenMapSurfer.. Our stand is part of the…