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  • Keynote on VGI & Social Media for LBS at International Conference on Location Based Services 2015

    The 12th International Symposium on Location Based Services 2015 (LBS 2015) will take place this year in Augsburg (Germany), on Sept. 16-18, 2015. Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf is one of the invited keynote speakers and will give a talk about “Enriching Location Based Services with VGI and Social Media” on Thursday, 17/Sep/2015 (1:45pm – 2:30pm).…

  • GIScience Heidelberg, OSM, WheelMap et al. on “Arte TV”

    The TV science program “X:enius” on the German TV channel “Arte” broadcasts a program about “Navigation – How do we find the right way?” (in German). Amongst others it features some of our work at GIScience Heidelberg on OpenStreetMap and crisis mapping, as well as Raul Krauthausen introducing the WheelMap project, which is partner in…

  • OpenRouteService Update to Version 2.2

    It has been less than two months since the major update of OpenRouteService. Today we announce the next sound update of the service. In this release, we were mostly concentrated on fixing bugs both on the server and client sides. The full list of changes can be found on github. We summarize some improvements below…

  • OpenRouteService at the Heidelberg wheelchair marathon

    On last Saturday we braved the tropical heat and used the occasion of the 13th international wheelchair marathon in Heidelberg to inform the public about our recent developments regarding wheelchair accessible route planning with OpenRouteService. We are thankful for the interesting conversations with people from Germany, Denmark, Japan, England and France and for their valuable…

  • OpenRouteService in QGIS – Plugin

    Together with the help of our friends from Geolicious OSM routing with our OpenRouteService now has been made available within Quantum GIS. The “OSM Route” plugin is published in the offical QGIS repository and can be simply installed via the QGIS plugin manager (please enable experimental plugins within QGIS, see screenshot below, then search for…

  • Talk by WheelMap Founder Raul Krauthausen in Schriesheim ( 03.07.)

    Raul Krauthausen – the multi award-winning activists well-known from TV and press, founder of Sozialhelden and WheelMap.org – presents his book “Dachdecker wollt ich eh nicht werden“. WheelMap.org is a prime example of how social engagement and Crowdsouring geodata via OpenStreetMap can be combined perfectly. Friday, 03/07/2015 19h (doors open at 18:30) in the multi-purpose…

  • Crowdsourcing Accessibility Information – Talk at University of Education Heidelberg

    Yesterday, a talk was given by Stefan Hahmann within the frame of the colloquium series of the geography department at Heidelberg University of Education. The talk was entitled “Crowdsourcing for individual needs – the example of wheelchair routing“. Besides a general introduction to the field of crowdsourcing, VGI and OpenStreetMap, our research and development activities…

  • HowTo use OpenRouteService in QGIS

    Riccardo has written a short introduction on how to integrate OpenRouteService into the Open Source GIS QGIS at digital-geography. Thanks for this. It is obviously quite easy (even easier than Google as he states) and similar things could be done e.g. with the OpenRouteService geocoder or Accessibility Analysis Service (for calculating Isochrones) etc. While for…

  • Long-expected major Update on OpenRouteService with many new features in backend and frontend

    Our OpenRouteService has some new features and crucial bug fixes to boast. First of all we revamped the backend of the service, and while not only making it faster, more stable and efficient, we added a new profile for heavy vehicles. This includes the sub-profiles forestry, agricultural and delivery vehicles as well as buses and…

  • Today: disastermappers-Heidelberg ‘on Tour’ : Mapping for Nepal continued

    After the earthquake in Nepal just over two weeks ago, the country has been hit again by a serious earthquake. Many places have so far not received any assistance due to a lack of maps. After earlier Disaster Mapping events at the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University and continuous activities in between, the “disastermappers…

  • CAP4ACCESS team active on the European protest day of equal rights for people with disabilities

    On the occasion of the European protest day for equal rights of people with disabilities the Heidelberg advisory board of people with disabilities organised an event at Heidelberg castle. Every year on these specific days, particular organizations plan relevant activities in order to raise awareness of the needs of disabled people including those with limited…

  • 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…