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A year after its launch, the Climate Action Navigator has emerged as a growing open-data dashboard that helps cities, NGOs, and community initiatives target climate action through high-resolution assessment tools…
This study is based on Celina Thomé’s master thesis. It was presented at the ISCRAM 2026 conference, where it added to conversations about using data-driven methods to improve crisis management,…
A new Open Access paper published in the volume Geography According to Foundation Models by IOS Press explores how Large Language Models could help design stated-preference studies in urban mobility…

Hidden Energy Poverty (hEP) represents an underestimated form of energy vulnerability in which households consume less energy than required to achieve adequate indoor thermal comfort conditions. This phenomenon is particularly…

The new ohsome quality API (OQAPI) country reports are a meta-dataset designed to provide an overview of whether OpenStreetMap (OSM) data quality for a country or region of interest is…
A new assessment tool for traffic emissions has just been released on the Climate Action Navigator, HeiGIT’s open, interactive dashboard offering high-resolution, open data-based insights into key climate action indicators….

HeiGIT together with the GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University are open to hosting postdoctoral researchers through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA-PF) 2026. The MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent…

Leveraging openly available airborne imagery this study presents a scalable framework for automated road pavement crack detection for spatially guided highway-maintenance….

Satellite imagery has become so embedded in research and humanitarian work, yet access remains uneven and inconsistent. Even when imagery is nominally available, its coverage varies across regions, resolution is…

A new study published in Scientific Reports examines the effectiveness of biological larviciding in controlling invasive mosquito populations in Heidelberg, Germany. Using detailed data, the research highlights how treatment effects…
The article is based on the talk Benjamin Herfort (HeiGIT) and Benjamin Würzler (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie) presented at FOSSGIS 2026 in Göttingen….
The new OpenAccessLens platform provides open, global data on accessibility to healthcare and education. Built on OpenStreetMap data and openrouteservice modeling, it can support accessibility research, humanitarian work, public health…
Germany has already cut its greenhouse gas emissions substantially since their peak in 1979. Yet many cities are close to exhausting their remaining carbon dioxide budgets. Can we still achieve…

Reliable geodata is essential for informed decisions, such as preparing emergency supply chains, assessing road conditions, identifying healthcare gaps, or guiding climate investments. Yet in many regions, this information is…

Numbers alone do not show whether a child can reach school or a patient access medical care in time. This is where maps add context, helping to make sense of…

Street-level imagery combined with deep learning methods is transforming how we detect and map critical infrastructure characteristics that are often missing from existing datasets. Applications range from road surface classification…

This blog article was originally posted on Medium by Maciej Adamiak, machine learning expert at HeiGIT. It’s very easy to take many things around us for granted, especially when you live…

The Sketch Map Tool was strategically used within Colombia’s National Disaster Management System to steer community mapping in the southern city of Cali. The National Unit for Disaster Risk Management…

New open, ready-to-use global risk assessment datasets can simplify risk analysis by removing major technical barriers to data preparation. Designed for easy use with the Risk Assessment QGIS Plugin, the…
The study introduces a BIKE Index, a multi-dimensional framework for evaluating urban cycling conditions across cities. Built entirely on open datasets and open tools such as openrouteservice, the index provides…