GIScience-Mitglied und Doktorand Steffen Knoblauch wurde als Redner zum Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting (JITMM) 2023 eingeladen. Die Konferenz wurde unter dem Hauptthema „Achieving the SDGs: Human and AI-driven Solutions for Tropical Medicine in a Changing World“ von der Fakultät … Read More
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Assessing road criticality and loss of healthcare accessibility during floods: the case of Cyclone Idai, Mozambique 2019
Gezeigtes Bild: Straßennetzwerkanalyse für die Fahrprofile. A Normale Verhältnisse vor dem Flutereignis. B Entwicklung des Scores nach den Überschwemmungen durch den Zyklon Idai. Die untere Reihe zeigt eine Nahaufnahme des Gebiets um die Stadt Dondo. Die Fähigkeit der Katastrophenhilfe, -vorsorge und -begrenzung, den Verlust … Read More
Erreichbarkeit sicherer Abtreibungsmöglichkeiten in Deutschland
UPDATE 09.11.2022: Unser Team hat an der State of the Map 2022 Tagung in Florenz, die neuerdings wieder in-Person stattfindet, teilgenommen. Wir haben bei Workshops mitgemacht, Vorträge angehört und hatten außerdem die Gelegenheit, unser eigenes Poster über die Zugänglichkeit von Abtreibungskliniken in … Read More
Räumliche Daten für die Gesellschaft – HeiGIT in die Zukunft geführt
Unterführungen, Treppen und hohe Bordsteinkanten sind für Menschen mit Gehbeeinträchtigungen eine große Herausforderung. Ein maßgeschneiderter Routenplaner kann aber ihre Mobilität erhöhen, indem er Wege mit möglichst wenigen Hindernissen berechnet. Dieses Beispiel zeigt, wie Geoinformationstechnologie und Geoinformatik speziellen Gruppen in der … Read More
United Nations World Data Forum Blog on Healthcare Accessibility Map
In the context of the United Nations World Data Forum 2021 organised by the United Nations Statistics Division and UN member states a series of blogposts has been published by UNSTATS. Among them is one by Alexander Zipf about improving … Read More
GIScience and HeiGIT contributions to AGILE 2021 conference
The AGILE 2021 conference is taking place this week. It is the the 24rd AGILE conference on GIScience. AGILE is the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe and the 2021 conference is for the first time held as a … Read More
All countries of Central and South America now on Open Healthcare Access Map
After Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia we have now published all countries of Central and South America on the Open Healthcare Access Map. The web application is available here: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/. Please note that this is still a prototype … Read More
All countries of South and Southeast Asia now on Open Healthcare Access Map
It’s been a little longer than a month since we published the Open Healthcare Access Map. Last week we rolled out all countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Today all countries of South and Southeast Asia follow. The web application is available … Read More
All countries of Sub-Saharan Africa now in Open Healthcare Access Map
Last month we started the Open Healthcare Access Map. Initially, only a few countries were featured. Gradually, more countries and regions are now being added. Today we release all countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. The web application is available here: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/. … Read More
German Mass Vaccination Sites in Open Healthcare Access Map
Last week we introduced Open Healthcare Access Map. Our new web application for interactively sharing results of accessibility estimates based on OpenStreetMap healthcare facilities and openrouteservice isochrones. A new update now shows motorized accessibility estimates of mass vaccination sites in … Read More
Introducing the Open Healthcare Access Map
Open Healthcare Access Map is a new web application by HeiGIT to provide insights into healthcare supply on different spatial scales for many countries worldwide. The web application is available here: https://apps.heigit.org/healthcare_access/. Please note that this is a prototype and … Read More
Accessibility to pharmacies in Germany with 15km Covid-19 restriction
Current lockdown regulations in Germany state that – in many but not all federal states – travel in COVID-19 hotspot regions is only allowed up to 15km distance. This has raised concerns since a 15km radius has been perceived by … Read More
Accessibility of covid-19 vaccination centers in Germany
Vaccination of a sufficiently large share of the population is considered the most important action to fight the spread of SARS-CoV -2 and resulting COVID-19 infections. Germany has started together with the majority of EU member states at the 27th … Read More
HeiGIT participates at virtual HOT Summit 2020
Next week the HOT Summit will take place. The conference takes already place for the sixth time and it is the fifth consecutive time that we from HeiGIT/GIScience Heidelberg do contribute a session. This years topic is 10 Years of … Read More