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New Paper “Urban AI for a sustainable built environment: Progress and future directions”

The editorial for the special issue of Environment and Planning…
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Farbiges Höhenlinienmodell einer Landschaft mit dem Titel 'Tajogaite' und dem Hinweis auf OpenStreetMap-Daten.

New release of ohsome-planet: Analyse OSM data at the pace it is produced with minutely updates

The latest release of ohsome-planet introduces Parquet files continuously derived…
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Gruppe von Menschen steht vor mehreren an der Wand befestigten Plakaten in einem hellen Raum mit Holzboden.

Making room for experiment: How we build innovation into our daily work

In recent years, HeiGIT has dedicated time to experimenting with…

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GIS Training to Strengthen Public Health and Outbreak Response

Geospatial analysis is critical for public health challenges such as…
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Share your mobility experiences in Mannheim: Participate in the Silver Ways survey!

The Silver Ways project is an international research initiative that…

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Use Case: Mapping Pedestrian Accessibility in Jakarta with Openrouteservice

A recent study on cultural ecosystem service access in Jakarta…
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New paper “Estimating road speed classes: Integrating OpenStreetMap and Street View imagery for missing data imputation”

This study presents an environment-driven, open-data approach to infer and…

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New Indicators for Residential Heating Emissions: Building Construction Year and Energy Carrier

The Heating Emissions assessment tool in the Climate Action Navigator…
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OpenAerialMap integration with the Sketch Map Tool launches a new way of Mapping

The latest update to the Sketch Map Tool introduces a…
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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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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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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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Rethinking Humanitarian Routing: When Every Minute and Mile Matter

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

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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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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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