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Title slide with text 'Transparency and Trust in Collaborative Mapping: Concerns and Dilemmas in AI-Generated Road Integration within OpenStreetMap' on a background showing a map and a network diagram.

New Paper “Transparency and Trust in Collaborative Mapping: Concerns and Dilemmas in AI-Generated Road Integration within OpenStreetMap”

Automatically generated map data has become far more common, reducing…

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Person wearing a backpack riding a bicycle on a tree-lined path with sunlight filtering through.

hiBike Release: New Greenness, Detours, and Summary Features for Improved Bikeability Analysis

The Climate Action Navigator now includes also greenness, detours, and…
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Group of people outdoors holding signs that spell 'HAPPY HOLIDAYS' and other Christmas messages, some wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers.

Year In Review: Looking Back At 2025 And Ahead To 2026

2025 was an exciting year for HeiGIT, full of new…

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Four people standing in front of a wall with the World Food Programme logo and a green plant background, wearing conference badges.

Rethinking Humanitarian Routing: When Every Minute and Mile Matter

In humanitarian emergencies, delivering relief in time is key. Every…

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Aerial view of polygonal patterns in green tundra near a blue water body, typical of permafrost terrain. Text: New Paper- Monitoring Arctic Permafrost – Examining the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Mapping Ice-Wedge Polygons

New Paper on the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Mapping Arctic Permafrost

A recent study within the UndercoverEisAgenten project demonstrates that citizen…
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A woman presenting a slide titled "How does it work?" to an audience in a conference room. The text reads "Geoinformatics meets Global Health, Global Digital Health Research Alumni Project Week."

Geoinformatics meets Global Health at the Global Digital Health Project Week

Last week, the “Global Digital Health” Research Alumni Project Week…

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Nine 3D scatter plots showing relationships between meteorological variables and PM2.5 concentrations in Temuco, Chile, with a color scale from blue to red.

New paper “Influence of Meteorological Variables on PM2.5 Concentrations in Cities Heated with Solid Fuels: A Case Study from Temuco, Chile”

Air pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) is a…

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World map showing clusters of active OpenStreetMap users and their edits in 2025, represented by red and dark red circles of varying sizes.

Moving to ohsomeDB

At State of the Map Europe 2025, we have introduced…
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Image on the right: © sig_3co, Panoramax; Figure on the left illustrates the workflow and challenges of extracting road attributes from 3-4m PlanetScope imagery.

New Global Satellite Dataset for Humanitarian Routing and Tracking Infrastructure Change

A new global dataset released by the HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute…

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Aerial view of an abandoned sugarcane processing facility with a tall chimney and surrounding green fields under a clear sky.

New Paper “Predisposing Factors of Sugarcane Abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Exploring Policy Implications”

This study investigates sugarcane farmland abandonment in Rio de Janeiro…

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Alexander Zipf, Stefan Gumbrich

HeiGIT welcomes Stefan Gumbrich as new Managing Director

We are very happy to welcome Stefan Gumbrich as the…

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hiWalk 3.0: Accessibility of Benches and Drinking Fountains

hiWalk assesses the quality and accessibility of walking infrastructure by…

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Climate Action Navigator, Land Consumption

Unveiling the HeiGIT Climate Action Navigator Part 6 – Land Consumption

In May this year we officially launched the Climate Action…

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Silver Ways travel diaries

Silver Ways & Travel Diaries: Mapping Age-Friendly Routes with Sketch Map Tool

The Silver Ways project aims to make it easier for…

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Streetscape Intelligence: GeoAI at Eye Level

Streetscape Intelligence: GeoAI at Eye Level

Crowdsourced street-level imagery can be used to detect and map…

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Person in patterned shirt working on a computer displaying a colorful topographic map, with text 'Advancing Disaster Preparedness in Madagascar with Data-Based Anticipatory Action'

Advancing Disaster Preparedness in Madagascar with Data-Based Anticipatory Action

Anticipatory Action (AA) is becoming an increasingly vital approach in…

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