Tag: social media
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Twitter Point Clouds
Not just LiDAR sensors, but also social media sources produce point clouds. We compiled two new visualisations showing spatiotemporal Twitter Tweet locations. One of them is centered at Maracanã stadium during the football world cup 2014. The point cloud allows seeing various games that appear in the form of pronounced discs. In the centre of…
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Analyzing public transport flows from uncertain social media
The growing number of mobile devices equipped with GPS sensors having broadband internet access, allow users to actively participate and create content through mobile applications and location based services. Whether users are uploading geotagged photos via Flickr or Instagram, checking in at a venue with Foursquare or commenting on a local event via Twitter. These…
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DFG project on extracting emotions for urban research started
Recently the new research project “Urban Emotions” has started. It is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and aims at the development of a methodology to extract contextual emotional information for spatial planning based on real-time people-as-sensors and crowdsourcing approaches with social media. The spatial and social structures of a city and its underlying…
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CrowdAnalyser Workshop 2014
The ‘CrowdAnalyser Workshop 2014‘ successfully took place on Thursday, 08th of May and Friday, 09th of May. Organised by the PhD students of the research training group ‘CrowdAnalyser‘, the event was well attended. On Thursday, a lecture room in Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing was crowded with 45 interested participants of the presentation and discussion…
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CrisisMapping Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Typhoon Haiyan (also called Yolanda) has hit the Phillipines killing likely over 1000 people and is approaching Vietnam and Laos. The crisis mapper communities have reacted fast and started to map the affected areas in OpenStreetMap such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) and the Standby Task Force (SBTF) is officially deploying in response to…
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Some Impressions from the Conference on Social Media in Disaster Management in Heidelberg
Here you find some first impressions from our very successful conference on Web 2.0 and social media in disaster management that we organized in Heidelberg on October 17th. Here you find the presentations.
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About the “Geo” in Social Media: What about Location Based Social Networks?
The growing penetration of GPS equipped smartphones allowing users to constantly share geographic information on their current whereabouts has led the way to an augmentation of existing Social Network Sites with location-based features or the creation of new ones exclusively around geographic information. Within these Location Based Social Networks vast amounts of geographic information are…
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Presentations from Conference on Web 2.0 & Social Media in Disaster Management are online
The presentations from the conference “Web 2.0 and Social Media in Disaster- and Flodd Management” are online below. Most presentations are in German. We thank all speakers for making the documents available! Ronald Voigt (Landratsamt Meißen): “Kurzbericht zu Erfahrungen aus dem Hochwasser 2013” Voigt_Erfahrungsbericht Claudia Schorr / Deutsches Rotes Kreuz – Generalsekretariat Berlin: “Die Rolle…
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Pressemitteilung der Universität zur Fachtagung: “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement”
Am 17.10.2013 findet in Heidelberg ganztags die Fachtagung “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” statt. Hierzu hat die Universität aktuell eine Pressemitteilung veröffentlicht. Noch ist Gelegenheit sich für diese spannende Veranstaltung anzumelden und an den Diskussionen teilzunehmen.
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Conference WebSite online: “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” – 17.10.2013 in Heidelberg
The website for the conference “Web 2.0 und Social Media in Katastrophenschutz und Hochwassermanagement” is now online. It takes place on Oct. 17th in Heidelberg (Studio Villa Bosch). The conference language will be German. The program is taking shape and will be announced on the following site soon: http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis/veranstaltungen/web_und_social_media.html Save the date!
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#flood #hochwasser — Social Media and Disaster Mapping
The current flood in Germany is the prominent proof: Social Media, Web 2.0 and Crowdsourcing play a more and more important role in organizing volunteers in humanitarian help. Crowdsouring has shown to be useful for collecting relevant geographical information in natural disasters. This is the very “on spot” topic of our current seminar on VGI…