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Two older people walking on a sidewalk next to a hand holding a map with a city plan, text on the right reads 'Silver Ways Project Testing Age-Friendly Routes in Urban Living Labs'

Silver Ways Project: Testing Age-Friendly Routes in Urban Living Labs

The Silver Ways project develops a routing system that is…

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Sketch Map Tool use-case: Mapping Congestion at Mimboman Junction

The UN Mappers Ambassadors for Cameroon and OSM ENSTP used…
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Changes in the openrouteservice universe

Our new openrouteservice web client is now online at routing.heigit.org….

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Use Case: Supporting Emergency Response with ResQMesh and openrouteservice

ResQMesh uses openrouteservice to find emergency response routes from the…
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Emergency Needs Assessment Planning and Information Management (ENAPIM) Training for the Baltic National Societies and Civil Protection

In late August, our colleague supported the technical design of…

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New Paper “ACTION: Making Remote Sensing and Volunteered Geographic Information Decision-Ready”

In a new perspective paper, the authors argue that geospatial…
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ohsome 2.0 has arrived

We have recently released the version 2.0 of the ohsome…

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Disaster Risk Composer: A Dashboard for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments in Anticipatory Action

Disaster Risk Composer: A Dashboard for Multi-Hazard Risk Assessments in Anticipatory Action

The new Disaster Risk Composer makes multi-hazard risk assessment faster…
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New paper “A genus-labeled dataset of individual trees in Baden-Württemberg, Germany”

Trees in settled areas are increasingly recognized as important indicators…

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openrouteservice 10.0.0 “Amalthea” release

We are announcing the major release of openrouteservice with version…

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New paper “Residential heating emissions tool in the Climate Action Navigator: High-resolution estimation based on open data”

A new paper presents an open-source tool that estimates direct…
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Introducing HeiSlime: Street-Level Imagery Mining Engine

HeiSlime is a Python toolbox that uses geographic context to…
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New paper in Nature Human Behaviour “Rising health inequities require looking beyond health systems”

Global health inequity is increasingly driven by the triple planetary…
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Two Tools for Shade-Aware Urban Planning

Free, high-resolution shade data for European cities, together with two…
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New paper “Effects of urban building structures on the distribution of Aedes albopictus in Pfaffengrund, Heidelberg”

In response to the increasing abundance and spread of the…
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What Makes a Place Walkable? Expanding the Way We Measure Walkability 

​​What makes a place walkable goes beyond ​​whether​​ a footpath…
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