Tag: State of the Map
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HeiGIT at State of the Map in Nairobi, Kenya
State of the Map is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. In 2024 the State of the Map conference will be taking place from September 6 to 8 in Nairobi, Kenya as well as online. The conference programme contains talks, workshops, discussion rounds and more. Four talks as well as a workshop…
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Our Contribution to the State of the Map Europe 2024 Conference in Łódź
This year, two of our colleagues will participate at the State of the Map Europe 2024 Conference, which will take place from July 18-21, 2024, in Łódź, Poland. The annual event is a cornerstone for the European (OpenStreetMap) OSM community, attracting developers, scientists, designers, social activists, companies and enthusiasts worldwide to enhance mapping practices and…
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HeiGIT at State of the Map Europe 2023
This year’s State of the Map Europe Conference (SotM EU) took place in Antwerp, Belgium. HeiGIT’s Benjamin Herfort and Jochen Stier visited the conference. SotM is a platform hosting OSM mappers, open-source developers, researchers, GIS professionals, cartographs and many more interested people. The goal is to offer an opportunity for those groups and individuals to…
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HeiGIT/GIScience @ State of the Map 2021
Like in 2020, this year’s State of the Map (SotM) is taking place online this week from tomorrow 2021-07-09 to 2021-07-11, starting at 12:00 (CEST) each day. This year, HeiGIT is a bronze sponsor. In addition, there are a total of 7 contributions from HeiGIT/GIScience: one academic talk by Maxwell Owusu four lightning talks and…
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GIScience Contributions to the 2019 State of the Map Academic Track proceedings
Recently the SOTM 2019 Heidelberg Academic Track Proceedings have been published. GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and HeiGIT contributed several talks and posters. Below you can find an overview. Contact us if you are interested in further details on ongoing research. Klonner, Hartmann, Djami, Zipf, A. (2019). “Ohsome” OpenStreetMap Data Evaluation: Fitness of Field Papers for…
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Using OSM data to generate scenes for LiDAR simulations in HELIOS
A new tutorial for the 3DGeo‘s LiDAR simulation software HELIOS has been posted to the repository’s wiki page. It shows a simple way to generate scenes of real landscapes including building and vegetation models as well as terrain from NASA JPL’s SRTM data. When applied to OSM data in the city of Vienna, the obtained…
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State of the Map and HOT Summit in Heidelberg
Over the last few days, Heidelberg has been host to the annual HOT Summit and State of the Map conference with a combined attendance of over 800 people. The HOT summit ran from the 19th-20th September and had over 200 attendees from more than 40 different countries. The SotM conference, running from the 21st to…
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Pressekonferenz: State of the Map, Heidelberg 21.09.2019
Presseeinladung 18.09.2019 (PDF Link hier) Weltkonferenz für eine Freie Karte Die Macher von OpenStreetMap treffen sich in Heidelberg Universität Heidelberg und Verkehrsministerium Baden-Württemberg unterstützen Initiative Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, hochwertiges digitales Kartenmaterial muss nicht kommerziell sein. Seit mittlerweile 15 Jahren zeigen die die Macher der OpenStreetMap (OSM), dass eine weltweite Community in ehrenamtlicher Arbeit frei…
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Call for State of the Map 2019 academic track is open
The call for State of the Map 2019 (SOTM) academic track is now open until: 10th May 2019. Read more: https://2019.stateofthemap.org/calls/academic/ tl;dr Please read the submission guidelines and submit your presentation proposal before May 10 to the submission form. This year’s State of the Map conference in Heidelberg will again feature a full day Academic Track session. Following…
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State of the Map 2019: Website is online now
State of the Map is the annual event for all mappers and OpenStreetMap users. Enjoy three days in Heidelberg with talks, discussions, workshops, code and documentation sprints all around the free and open map of the world. Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates in time for early bird tickets, session proposals, scholarships and more.
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HOT Summit 2019 is coming to Heidelberg
We are happy to hereby share latest information about the 5th HOT Summit- the annual gathering of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team community- which after great events in Washington, Brussels, Ottawa and Dar es Salaam, will next year come to the picturesque city of Heidelberg, September 19th and 20th. HOT Summit 2019 as well as the…
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Missing Maps Gathering, FOSS4G and HOT Summit 2018 in Dar es Salaam
As previously announced, Sabrina Marx and Melanie Eckle recently visited Dar es Salaam to attend the Missing Maps Members Gathering and to join the FOSS4G and HOT Summit community for their joint annual gatherings. The Missing Maps Members Gathering was the first side event of the conference week. Likewise to previous years, the Missing Maps…