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  • Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis – Kick-Off Meeting

    This week the Kick-Off Meeting of a recently started collaboarative project on “Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis” (CrowdFDA) took place at GIScience Heidelberg University together with partners from the Geophysical Institute of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Dr. Bijan Khazai) as member in the Center for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM, KIT) and…

  • GIScience Research Group Heidelberg becomes Member of the Missing Maps Project

    The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University is happy to announce their official membership in the Missing Maps Project. The objective of the Missing Maps Project is to map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond…

  • Amateur or Professional: Assessing the Expertise of Major Contributors in OpenStreetMap Based on Contributing Behaviors

    Volunteered geographic information (VGI) projects, such as OpenStreetMap (OSM), provide an alternative way to produce geographic data. Research has showed that the resulting data in some areas are of decent quality, which guarantees their usability in various applications. Though these achievements are normally attributed to the huge heterogeneous community mainly consisting of amateurs, it is…

  • 2nd Call for Papers: Link-VGI Workshop @ AGILE Helsinki in June; Deadline April 25th.

    LINKing and analyzing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) across different platforms Pre Conference Workshop at 19th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science 2016. Helsinki, June 14th 2016 Deadline for Call for Short Paper (AGILE short paper format): April 25th 2016 The number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms is continuously growing, providing…

  • Open Position GIScience HD: Navigation, Routing & mobile LBS with OpenStreetMap

    Stellenausschreibung Geoinformatik, Universität Heidelberg Navigation, Routing & LBS mit OSM (VGI) Am Lehrstuhl Geoinformatik der Universität Heidelberg ist baldmöglichst eine Stelle als Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter (100%, TVL) – gerne als PostDoc – zu besetzen. Die relevanten Themengebiete beinhalten insbesondere Forschung und Entwicklung in min. einem der folgenden Bereiche (Schwerpunktsetzung möglich): • Navigation (In- / Outdoor) mit…

  • Save the Date: Workshop “Open Data”, (OSM in disaster management), Heidelberg, 15. April 2016

    As a follow-up of the IWR HGS Modellierungstag on “Open Data” from last December IWR HGS MathComp will organize an additional Workshop on “Open Data” in Heidelberg on April 15th. Again GIScience Heidelberg as well as GeoNet.MRN will participate with contributions. GIScience Heidelberg will present potentials and tools for the usage of OpenStreetMap in the…

  • GIScience Heidelberg joins OSGeo GeoForAll Labs

    The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg joined the OSGE GeoForAll initiative and network as an Open Source Geospatial Laboratory and Research Center. GIScience Heidelberg is supporting free and open GI software, open GI standards (OGC), open Geo-Data (e.g. OpenStreetMap and other VGI), open access publication and GIS education in many ways. This is demonstrated already…

  • Temporal Analysis on Contribution Inequality in OpenStreetMap: A Comparative Study for Four Countries

    Contribution inequality widely exists in OpenStreetMap (OSM), which means that most data come from a minority of the contributors, while the majority only accounts for a small percentage of data. This phenomenon is of great importance to understanding from where the data come and how the project evolves. The investigation in a recently published paper…

  • 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.…