Tag: OpenStreetMap
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HeiGIT and Disastermappers @ first State of the Map Tanzania
From this friday on the first state of the map conference in Tanzania will be held in Dar es Salaam. The members of our GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and the disastermappers heidelberg Marcel Reinmuth and Benjamin Herfort are participating and will organize a workshop on creating maps from OpenStreetMap data. The state of the map…
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Invited GIScience Heidelberg OSM Services Demo Keynote at GEOINFO 2017
This week sees the 18th GEOINFO conference taking part in Salvador. It is the annual conference for exploring ongoing research, development and innovative applications on geographic information science in Brazil. Alexander Zipf is among the keynote speakers. In the special demo session he will highlight some of the OSM related web services for data quality assessment and…
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Software Engineer OSM Routing Services, Backend & Algorithms
Software Engineer OSM Routing Services, Backend & Algorithms Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) You genuinely enjoy developing open source Geoinformation Services used by thousands on a daily basis? You are a highly motivated Java Backend Developer? And you love using and enhancing OpenStreetMap for high-performance services for global coverage? Then we actually might have…
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Today OpenRouteService at 7th GeoIT WhereCamp Conference Berlin
Today we present the latest version and details on the technical API of OpenRouteService at the 7th GeoIT WhereCamp Conference Berlin. Tim from the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) will talk about Consuming Open Data for Highly Customizable Route Planning He will show some examples of the very rich feature set and API of OpenRouteService…
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Routing through open spaces – a performance comparison of algorithms
Finding the shortest path through open spaces is a well-known challenge for pedestrian routing engines. A common solution is routing on the open space boundary, which causes in most cases an unnecessarily long route. A possible alternative is to create a subgraph within the open space. In a recently published paper authors from GIScience Research…
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HeiGIT/GIScience partnership with Kathmandu Living Labs
Kathmandu Living Labs– a team of young entrepreneurs and out of the box thinkers that change the use and creation of data in Nepal. The team around Nama Budhathoki was launched in 2013 and emerged of a previous Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI) program. In the scope of the OpenDRI project, the team has…
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Missing Maps mapathon to support OSM GeoWeek
Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, November 12th-18th is the international OpenStreetMap GeoWeek. Since 1987, in the third week of November all around the world different kind of projects and activities are planned to raise awareness about the significance of geography and spatial data and how we affect and are affected by it. This year we celebrate the…
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Openrouteservice partners with German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) and releases new features
We are proud to announce our partnership with the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy [German: Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG)] which is the central service provider of topographic data, cartography, and geodetic reference systems for the German government. The agency works under the Federal Ministry of the Interior, with specialist departments in…
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Semester Start: OSM Ersti-Mapathon in Heidelberg
Dear Mapping Enthusiasts, We want to welcome the freshman students to Heidelberg University and start the new semester with our next mapathon! At our Ersti-mapathon we want to introduce everyone interested to OpenStreetMap mapping. Therefore, no previous knowledge is necessary. In addition our MapSwipe App will be presented. We will show how you can create geo…
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20 Anniversary Special Issue on VGI Analytics published in GSIS
The Special Issue: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) – Analytics ( Vol 20, Issue 3) has been published by Taylor & Francis in the Open Access Journal Geo-Spatial Information Science (GSIS) – celebrating the journal`s 20th anniversary. Guest Editors: Peter Mooney, Alexander Zipf, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, and Hartwig H. Hochmair http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgsi20/20/3?nav=tocList GSIS is now indexed in…
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Special Issue “Online Participation” of “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” has been published with paper on OpenStreetMap
Recently the full Special Issue “Online Participation” of the German journal “HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik” has been published online by Springer. It also includes our invited overview article about online participation in the context of geographic information, especially OpenStreetMap (in German). It is available open access: Griesbaum, L., Eckle, M., Herfort, B., Raifer, M., Zipf,…