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A Computer Vision Workshop with Tomorrow’s Mappers

At Explore Science 2026, young students experimented with computer vision…
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Introducing a new service for public transport routing

For well over a decade, our team has been transferring…

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Sketch Map Tool use-case in the EVCA context 

The Colombian Red Cross’s Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team works…

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Identifying Potential for Rooftop Solar Energy with the Climate Action Navigator

A new assessment tool has been released on the Climate…
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New Paper “Unveiling spatiotemporal mechanisms of urban traffic: multi-scale determinants and explainable street-level dynamics of a graph neural network in Berlin”

Public traffic speed data usually cover only some parts of…
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Use Case: Creating Deep Time Walk Routes with openrouteservice

Deep Time Walk offers facilitated walks of 4.6 kilometers, where…
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New Paper: “Object-Level Detection of Hand-Drawn Annotations in Participatory Sketch Maps Using Paired Clean and Annotated Basemaps”

A new paper presented at the AGILE 2026 conference investigates…
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New Paper “Detour-based metrics of alcohol availability along walking commutes”

New Paper: “Detour-based metrics of alcohol availability along walking commutes”

This study introduces detour-based indices for alcohol exposure along walking…
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New Paper: Analysis of the spatial and temporal pattern of COVID-19 incidence rate across Germany

New Paper: “Analysis of the spatial and temporal pattern of COVID-19 incidence rate across Germany”

This study analyzes five socio-economic factors shaping COVID-19 incidence rates…
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New Paper: “Food Insecurity Projections for Anticipatory Action: Comparative Spatiotemporal Analysis of FEWS NET and the IPC in Somalia”

Food insecurity projections are a central component of anticipatory action…
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Filling In The World Map With Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning: MapSwipe and Hug-a-Panorama

HeiGIT has been working with deep learning models and street-level…

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Use-case: Combining openrouteservice with emission model data to visualize emissions along a route

This article is based on a talk presented by Leonie…
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Introducing the technology behind heat-avoiding routing: How a Heidelberg research initiative became a nationally scalable open-source tool

The origin In 2021, HeiGIT, the GIScience Research Group, and…

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New paper “Guiding Deep Learning with Landscape Metrics for LULC Mapping Applications”

Deep Learning (DL) has become a core methodological pillar in…

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Dynamic Routing for Disaster Response: Integrating Earth Observation into Humanitarian Logistics Systems

As disasters grow more frequent and complex, the REER project…
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One Year with the Climate Action Navigator: How Open Data is Powering Climate Action in Cities

A year after its launch, the Climate Action Navigator has…
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