Tag: OpenStreetMap
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Children experiencing GIScience at the KinderUni Heidelberg
On Saturday, 07.02.2015, the Neuenheimer Feld of the University Heidelberg was the area of interest for new “mappers” of the KinderUni workshop at the Institute of Geography. After an introduction about OpenStreetMap, the children between the age of 9-12 years were able to go out and do some mapping themselves. Equipped with GPS devices and…
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Visualising GPS data from OpenStreetMap using WebGL
GPS data uploaded to the OpenStreetMap servers is a popular example of what is called Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). The data has been (and is still) collected by the project contributors primarily to support mapping. As the inclusion of roads and paths in the map is a major goal of the project, the collected GPS…
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Twitter location (sometimes) matters
In contrast to photo-based VGI (e.g. Flickr) the correlation between the place where an information has been created and what the information is about is less intuitive for text-based VGI. In order to gain more insight into the relationship between text information generated in mobile contexts (e.g. via smartphones) and their recorded location, research has…
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GIScience group covered by Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
Our #mapforaccess mapping party has been covered in yesterdays issue of the local newspaper Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (~80,000 copies per day in the Rhine-Neckar region). Enjoy reading! (Click to enlarge) Online version here.
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Vienna – London – Heidelberg! #mapforaccess
Yesterday evening we were happy to see a successful Wheelmap and OpenStreetMap Mapping party on the occasion of the UN International Day of persons with disabilities (Dec 3rd), organized for the EU-project CAP4ACCESS. The event started with a talk given by Stefan Hahmann providing an introduction to the Cap4access project, followed by a presentation of specific mapping…
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Successfull OSM Workshop by Disaster Mappers Heidelberg
Here you find a report on the OSM Workshop that has been organized last week at the Department of Geography, Heidelberg University by the Disaster Mappers Heidelberg. There are further options for events to work on OSM in Heidelberg e.g. as next Wednesday (3rd December) for the “OpenStreetMap und Wheelmap Mapping Party” or the Wednesday…
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Joint OpenStreetMap & Wheelmap Mapping Party on the 3rd December!
On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the GIScience group invites interested persons to a joint OpenStreetMap & Wheelmap Mapping Party. This event is part of the EU project CAP4ACCESS. Have you ever considered how you can get from A to B in (not only) Heidelberg using a wheelchair? Which places…
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Collaboration with Kathmandu Living Labs: innovative teaching for improving resilience against disasters with collaborative maps
Germany is the leading country when it comes to OpenStreetMap (OSM), and here this online map as well as the OSM data are well recognized. But what about other parts of the world? What kind of possibilities can OSM offer for fostering development and building resilience against disasters? Last Friday the students attending of the…
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OpenMapSurfer named as “Remarkable Map” by German Cartographic Society (DGfK)
The German site “Die bemerkenswerte Karte” (The Remarkable Map) by the German Cartographic Society (DGfK) reports about OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de as a remarkable OSM base map, because of it’s unique combination of high information density on the one hand and appealing aesthetics on the other hand. In particular the high quality automated label placement algorithms implemented in…
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Successful PhD Defense of Pascal Neis
On Tuesday, 17th of June, our former group member Pascal Neis successfully defended his PhD thesis! The subject of his PhD was about investigating the quality of OpenStreetMap contributions. Pascal’s PhD comprises eight journal papers. In addition he also published many conference contributions. Furthermore, he developed the first version of OpenRouteService (ORS), which was the…
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up2date data for ORS: new OSM Data Update Workflow for OpenRouteService
A new tool for processing and updating the street network data from OpenStreetMap (OSM), that is used in OpenRouteService.org (ORS) has been developed and tested over the last months. Now it has been deployed. Therefore the data used in ORS is now up2date again and can be updated more easily in an regular manner than…