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View from a vehicle driving on a dirt road in a rural area with houses and people visible alongside the road
  • In category: Intelligente Mobilität
Collecting Street-Level Imagery in Mozambique to Advance Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Logistics
HeiGIT and Data4MOZ have launched a collaboration to collect street-level imagery in Mozambique, combining local field expertise with geospatial capacity to advance technologies for humanitarian logistics and actionable data for…
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Indoor plants with sunlight shining through a window and overlaid text about indoor dwelling habitability and systematic review
  • In category: Forschung
New Paper „Indoor Dwelling Habitability: Conceptual Evolution, Methods, and Key Variables from a Systematic Review“
Indoor dwelling habitability affects health, comfort, and housing performance, but there is still no standardized approach for assessing it. This systematic review examines how the concept has evolved, which methods…
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Map with blue and purple shaded areas and black dots on the right and red network lines on the bottom right with text 'Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2024' on the left
  • In category: Allgemein
Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2024

Each November, the #30DayMapChallenge invites people worldwide to create and share maps, with a new theme for every day of the month. Started in 2019 by Finnish geographer and cartographer…

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Hexagonal grid map with color-coded data points and a faint background map, accompanied by text 'Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2025' and the HeiGIT logo
  • In category: Allgemein
Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2025

Every November, the #30DayMapChallenge encourages people around the world to make and share maps, with a different theme each day. Cartographer and geographer Topi Tjukanov started the challenge in 2019,…

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Group of four people standing behind a round table with a laptop, three smiling and one giving a thumbs-up gesture
  • In category: Allgemein
Advancing GeoAI through International Collaboration
HeiGIT recently welcomed Prof. Dr. Wenwen Li and Prof. Dr. Song Gao for research visits focused on GeoAI, multimodal geospatial data, human mobility, and disaster response. Their visits strengthened international…
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Straße mit Straßenbahnschienen unter großen Bäumen, die Schatten spenden, und mehreren Fußgängern auf dem Gehweg
  • In category: Climate Action, Pressemitteilungen
Wenn der Baumschatten den Weg weist
Analysetool gibt Überblick, wo Beschattung ist und wo Bäume für kühlere, begehbare Straßen gepflanzt werden sollten…
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Three people working on laptops in a meeting room with a map on a screen and text reading 'Update of the roadmap toward the new ohsome API 2.0'
  • In category: Big Spatial Data Analytics
Update of the roadmap toward the new ohsome API 2.0

Last year, we published our initial roadmap toward ohsome 2.0, outlining a transition from our established OpenStreetMap History Database (OSHDB) toward a Postgres backend enhanced by PostGIS and Citus. This…

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Map showing the complex border layout of Baarle-Hertog with irregular shapes and enclaves
  • In category: Big Spatial Data Analytics
Rebuilding geometry assembly from the ground up with ohsome-planet 1.3.1
We are releasing version 1.3.1 of ohsome-planet under the codename „Baarle-Hertog“. This tool is designed to facilitate the transformation of raw OpenStreetMap (OSM) history data into the GeoParquet format, making…
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Map with a red route line and a photo of a disaster area with collapsed buildings and rubble
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe, Intelligente Mobilität
Dynamic routing for disaster response in Venezuela

Following the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela on June 24, 2026, humanitarian organizations face a compromised operational landscape. With over 3,600 confirmed fatalities and tens of thousands missing, the immediate priority…

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Outdoor event with people walking near white tents and a laptop showing a computer vision interface on a table indoors with people in the background
  • In category: Allgemein, Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
A Computer Vision Workshop with Tomorrow’s Mappers
At Explore Science 2026, young students experimented with computer vision for humanitarian mapping: an occasion to learn how AI models are trained and why human input remains essential for generating…
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Presentation slide with text 'Introducing a new service for public transport routing' and a photo of a bus at a stop with people nearby
  • In category: Intelligente Mobilität
Introducing a new service for public transport routing

For well over a decade, our team has been transferring research to our ecosystems of mobility tools. These services are stable and maintained. Developing a dedicated public transit routing engine…

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Group of people outdoors looking at a map and a hexagonal inset showing a digital map with highlighted zones
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
Sketch Map Tool use-case in the EVCA context 

The Colombian Red Cross’s Disaster Risk Management (DRM) team works to mitigate the impact of emergencies and enhance community resilience throughout the country. Coordinating actions at both national and regional…

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  • In category: Climate Action
Mit dem Climate Action Navigator das Potenzial von Solarenergie auf Dächern visualisieren
Der Climate Action Navigator beinhaltet nun ein neues Modul, das anzeigt, wo Gebäudedächer mit Solaranlagen ausgestattet sind, und zeigt so das Potenzial für mehr nachhaltige Energieerzeugung in Städten auf….
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Aerial view of a city with roads highlighted in red and blue overlaid with text 'NEW PAPER Unveiling spatiotemporal mechanisms of urban traffic'
  • In category: Forschung
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 city road networks. In this paper, the authors present a clear framework to estimate missing street-level traffic speeds in Berlin….
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  • In category: Intelligente Mobilität
Use Case: Creating Deep Time Walk Routes with openrouteservice
Deep Time Walk offers facilitated walks of 4.6 kilometers, where each meter represents one million years of our Earth’s history. To empower their global network of facilitators, their new Route…
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Three hands holding markers drawing green rectangles on printed maps on a table
  • In category: Forschung
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 how hand-drawn annotations in participatory sketch maps can be automatically extracted and digitized. The authors formulate annotation extraction as an…
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New Paper “Detour-based metrics of alcohol availability along walking commutes”
  • In category: Forschung
New Paper: “Detour-based metrics of alcohol availability along walking commutes”
This study introduces detour-based indices for alcohol exposure along walking commutes. Survey data estimate detour budgets to assess path-based availability. Results show how different retail regimes affect exposure, informing effective…
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New Paper for AGILE Conference: Analysis of the spatial and temporal pattern of COVID-19 incidence rate across Germany
  • In category: Forschung
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 across the 400 German districts. A regression analysis using spatial eigenvector mapping indicates that socio-economic factors might influence incidence less…
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Rural landscape with sparse trees, huts, and dry soil under a cloudy sky
  • In category: Forschung
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 frameworks, particularly in drought contexts. Presented at the AGILE 2026 conference, this paper compares FEWS NET and IPC food insecurity…
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Text panel with the title 'Filling In The World Map With Street-Level Imagery and Deep Learning MapSwipe and Hug-a-Panorama' alongside two inset images showing a street scene with highlighted areas and a heatmap over a landscape.
  • In category: Geoinformation für humanitäre Hilfe
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 imagery for some time, with the goal to contribute to „filling in the world map“ by gaining high-resolution information about…

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