Efficient waste collection remains a major challenge in many rapidly growing cities. In a pilot study in Kenya, openrouteservice (ORS) is being used to improve solid waste collection planning and identify underserved areas.

Optimizing solid waste collection in underserved regions using openrouteservice: a pilot study in Kisumu, Kenya

Efficient waste collection remains a major challenge in many rapidly…
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Why access to satellite imagery continues to limit humanitarian aid and research

Satellite imagery has become so embedded in research and humanitarian…

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New Paper “Fine-scale temporal and spatial dynamics of Ae. albopictus response to larviciding with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis in Heidelberg, Germany”

A new study published in Scientific Reports examines the effectiveness…
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OpenStreetMap data as a basis for routing—how well does it really work?

The article is based on the talk Benjamin Herfort (HeiGIT)…
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Global Data on Healthcare and Education Accessibility with OpenAccessLens

The new OpenAccessLens platform provides open, global data on accessibility…
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Behind The Scenes: How We Are Developing New Climate Action Indicators

At HeiGIT, we focus on developing useable and useful tools…

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