Tag: OSM
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New Collaboration on Crowdsouring for Forensic Disaster Analysis with KIT
The aftermath of disasters – such as the recent Nepal earthquake – have shown that the general public can contribute to the response of a disaster event and moreover is able to organize and engage itself across national borders. Digital volunteerism is offering unique capabilities to bridge information gaps, particularly in crisis situations where infrastructure…
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Merging volunteered and expert accessibility data
On Tuesday 13 October, we have been more than happy to host volunteers of SAP in the course of the “SAP month of service” as our guests. They have supported us to merge volunteered data about accessibility from wheelmap.org and expert data about accessibility from Heidelberg Hürdenlos (a local accessibility platform). Heidelberg Hürdenlos contains more…
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A Conceptual Quality Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information @ COSIT 2015 this Tuesday
The Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) is taking place this week in Santa Fe, USA. This Tuesday our paper on “A Conceptual Quality Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information” by Andrea Ballatore and Alexander Zipf is being presented there. It outlines new proxy measures to several facets of conceptual quality, including accuracy, granularity, completeness, consistency,…
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What’s New in OpenRouteService
We have recently rolled out new features in OpenRouteService. In this blog post, we give a short overview of the most interesting changes and improvements. Over years we constantly receive a feedback from users via e-mails. Furthermore, starting from this year, it is possible to report about bugs and request new features using github. As…
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GIScience HD @ ISSDQ’15 in France
CIScience Heidelberg members Dr. Tobias Törnros and Dr. Hongchao Fan attended the ISSDQ’15 (The 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality) from 28 to 30 September 2015 in La Grande Motte, France. Tobias had an excellent talk about uncertainties of completeness measures in OpenStreetMap – A case study for buildings in a medium-sized German city.…
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Who is using OpenMapSurfer’s maps?
In a previous blog post, we have imparted to our readers that OpenMapSurfer web map tile service is being used by several projects. Today, we want to provide an updated list of the users. Among them are e.g.: Garmin, the world leader in Global Positioning System (GPS) technology – careers.garmin.com/en-US Weather forecast web sites –…
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Recent Progress in Automated Cartography at German Cartographers Day at INTERGEO
The German Cartographers Day (Deutscher Kartographentag) is taking place at INTERGEO conference held in Stuttgart this week. We will present an update on recent progress in automated cartography in a talk by Andreas Reimer and Maxim Rylov about our latest improvements in automated label placement, which have been implemented in MapSurfer.NET as published as in OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de.…
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Program of our ISSDQ session on “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” is online
The program of our special session SS1 on “Quality analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) towards effective use” at the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality (ISSDQ 2015) has been published online. ISSDQ is an event at the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2015 in Montpellier – La Grande Motte, France. The session is scheduled on…