Tag: Wheelchair Navigation
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Report on the 6th PCC meeting of CAP4Access EU project
The 6th PCC meeting of CAP4Access EU project was held during 21st and 22nd of April in Vienna. Adam Rousell, Stefan Hahmann and Amin Mobasheri attended this meeting from GIScience research group of Heidelberg University. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the progress of deliverables as well as to perform the first experiment…
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OpenRouteService featured in MENSCHEN. das magazin.
Among other great apps OpenRouteService and the corresponding Navigation App developed in our group have been mentioned in the germanwide magazine “MENSCHEN. das magazin.” (~30k copies). The current issue has a special focus on accessibility, where particularly the wheelchair profile of ORS that is currently under development in the scope of the CAP4Access project fits…
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Open Position GIScience HD: Navigation, Routing & mobile LBS with OpenStreetMap
Stellenausschreibung Geoinformatik, Universität Heidelberg Navigation, Routing & LBS mit OSM (VGI) Am Lehrstuhl Geoinformatik der Universität Heidelberg ist baldmöglichst eine Stelle als Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter (100%, TVL) – gerne als PostDoc – zu besetzen. Die relevanten Themengebiete beinhalten insbesondere Forschung und Entwicklung in min. einem der folgenden Bereiche (Schwerpunktsetzung möglich): • Navigation (In- / Outdoor) mit…
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MyAccessible.EU OpenStreetMap Tools for People with Reduced Mobility Released
As part of the MyAccessible.EU project (CAP4Access) several tools have been developed at GIScience in Heidelberg. These tools aim at collecting information about accessibility of places and to assist in movement through environments for people with reduced mobility. These tools include a mobile (Android) and web application for the collection and display of obstacles in…
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Workshop bridging OSM community and Wheelchair Users
Our EU project CAP4Access (MyAccessible.EU) has organized a first international expert workshop during the 5th International Congress on “Tourism for All” in Madrid on 23 September, 2015. The 5th International Congress on Tourism for All has been held in Madrid from September 23 to 25. The first CAP4Access international expert workshop was organized during this…
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GIScience Heidelberg, OSM, WheelMap et al. on “Arte TV”
The TV science program “X:enius” on the German TV channel “Arte” broadcasts a program about “Navigation – How do we find the right way?” (in German). Amongst others it features some of our work at GIScience Heidelberg on OpenStreetMap and crisis mapping, as well as Raul Krauthausen introducing the WheelMap project, which is partner in…
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OpenRouteService at the Heidelberg wheelchair marathon
On last Saturday we braved the tropical heat and used the occasion of the 13th international wheelchair marathon in Heidelberg to inform the public about our recent developments regarding wheelchair accessible route planning with OpenRouteService. We are thankful for the interesting conversations with people from Germany, Denmark, Japan, England and France and for their valuable…
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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…
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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…
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Report on the 4th PCC Meeting of CAP4Access project
On the 7th and 8th of April, our GIScience research group hosted the 4th PCC meeting of CAP4Access project in Heidelberg. The meeting was aimed to discuss the feedbacks and comments received from the reviewers of European Commission from the first evaluation meeting and various items where discussed from both theoretical and technical perspectives. As the normal procedure…
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Two open thesis topics related to accessibility of mobility-restricted people
As announced earlier in our blog, there are open thesis topics within the European project: CAP4Access. Heidelberg University’s GIScience Research Group is a project partner of CAP4ACCESS. Other project partners include UCL, Fraunhofer and sozialhelden.de with their wheelmap.org project. The goal of CAP4Access project is to improve the accessibility of mobility-restricted people, in particular those who are wheelchair users. As…
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Report on CAP4Access meeting in Elche, Spain
The 3rd official meeting for CAP4Access project took place in the beautiful city of Elche in Spain during 28 to 30th of October 2014. The morning of the first day was spent in a press conference at the municipality of Elche where the mayor of the city gave a talk regarding the importance of this…