Claudio Sossio De Simone is a PhD candidate at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in the field of Cultural Heritage, Education and Territory. His research interests include GIS science and geoinformation applied to cultural heritage, as well as the … Read More
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HeiGIT at the AGILE 2024 Conference: Mapping, Routing, Sustainability
“Geographic Information Science for a Sustainable Future” – The theme of this year’s conference held by the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) in Glasgow, UK, on 4-7 June 2024. Attendees of the AGILE 2024 conference will explore the … Read More
SketchMapTool erreicht die nächste Phase, dank Finanzierung durch Deutsches Rotes Kreuz und Auswärtiges Amt
Das Sketch Map Tool (SMT) geht dank Unterstützung durch das Deutsche Rote Kreuz (DRK) und das Auswärtige Amt in die nächste Projektphase. Unsere Hauptziele in dieser Phase sind es, neben der Verbesserung von Stabilität und Marker-Erkennung des Tools, die aktuelle … Read More
OSM data quality analysis for different stages of the mapping process
Slums are an important operational area for humanitarian organisations: Because of provisional housing, poor sanitation and difficult socio-political circumstances offers of help from such organisations are important and often necessary. For such deployments, humanitarian actors rely heavily on Volunteered Geographic … Read More
New paper published about the OSM Sketch Map Tool
The Sketch Map Tool supports participatory mapping approaches and risk communication. An new paper presents the different functionalities of the tool. OSM data quality can be evaluated regarding the fitness for the sketch-map-approach. Based on the great idea of Field … Read More
GIScience at GeOnG 2020
These days so much is different- also conferences. Carolin Klonner and Marcel Reinmuth attended the GeOnG 2020 virtually. Thanks to the organizers! It worked well and there was great exchange between the participants. The workshop on experiences in defining health … Read More
New paper published: Participatory Mapping and Visualization of Local Knowledge: An Example from Eberbach, Germany
Flooded parking area in Eberbach in January 2019 (Picture: C.Klonner) Worldwide, more and more people are affected by flooding. Local knowledge provides a valuable source of information for disaster risk reduction. We present an approach for visualizing and formalizing this … Read More
Urban flooding in Handschuhsheim – Using User-Generated Geographic Data in Flood Risk Management
A week ago, students from the seminar “User-Generated Geographic Data in Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Aid” carried out a survey about urban flood risk in Handschuhsheim. The “field day” was organised by Carolin Klonner and Melanie Eckle (the teachers … Read More