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  • GIScience Heidelberg @ Intergeo 2015 Stuttgart 15-17 Sept. 2015

    The fair INTERGEO 2015 is taking place in Stuttgart, Germany 15.-17. September 2015. The GIScience Research Group Heidelberg University will be present at the joint booth of the GeoNet.MRN, the Network Geoinformation of the Metropolitain Region Rhine-Neckar. There you will also find further members of the GeoNet.MRN, like the companies Heidelberg Mobil, geomer and Leiner…

  • Quality Evaluation of OSM with Authoritative Data — a study of Land Use in Southern Germany

    Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) such as data derived from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is a popular data source for freely available geographic data. There is frequently a cause of concern regarding the quality and usability of such data. In addition to our former studies (further here) or complementing our OSM in GIScience Book in a…

  • IJGIS Review for OpenStreetMap in GIScience Book

    The International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS) published a first review by Wen Lin at Taylor & Francis Online (DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2015.1077965) about our Springer book on OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research and applications, edited by Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Alexander Zipf, Peter Mooney and Marco Helbich (2015, Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography,…

  • Matching GPS trajectories to street segments – an open source implementation

    We would like to inform about a new open source tool that allows matching of GPS trajectories to corresponding street segments. The tool implements a simplified version of the algorithm presented by Zhang et al. (2010). It is a JAVA based implementation and has been put under LGPL license. You can access the source code…

  • 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…

  • MappingParty 4 India and Chile at Heidelberg University

    on Wednesday, July 8, we invite you to a mapping event organized by students, similar to the earlier mapping events in Heidelberg, where numerous people had participated. This time we chose two regions which suffer on the one hand from high vulnerability and many natural hazards and where on the other hand OpenStreetMap still has…

  • Extracting raw GPS data from OpenStreetMap – an LGPL tool

    We are happy to announce that a new JAVA-based tool is available that allows extracting raw GPS data from the OpenStreetMap GPS planet file. The tool is under LGPL license. It allows to specify a bounding box and to export the extracted data to 3D-Shapefiles. Besides the full GPS planet file there are also regional…

  • 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…

  • AGILE 2015 conference (and third place poster award)

    Last week saw the 18th AGILE conference being held in Lisbon, Portugal. Starting on Tuesday with a number of parallel workshops, the conference ran until Friday and included a number of interesting talks, key note sessions and a number of social events. The presence of GIScience at Heidelberg University was felt through two workshops being…

  • 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…