This Mapathon is organized in cooperation with Doctors Without Borders and is part of the Missing Maps project. The project uses the open-source platform OpenStreetMap to map areas lacking geographical data for humanitarian aid.
We are very pleased to host guest speaker Sebastián Block Munguía from the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (Yale University), who will give a talk on “Spatial datasets to assess countries' environmental performance”.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf, Scientific and Managing Director at HeiGIT and Professor of Geoinformatics / GIScience (GIS) at Heidelberg University, will give a lecture on the topic “Climate Protection and Humanitarian Aid: Support from Geoinformatics.”
The Heidelberg Geographical Society (HGG) has invited leading experts to present on urgent contemporary issues and engage in discussions with the audience afterward.
HeiGIT organizes and participates in several events throughout the week, such as “Piloting Drones”, “Mapathon with German Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders”.
We invite you to contribute to the workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data at the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in Hamburg on November 13, 2023!
Under this year’s main theme “People at the centre: scaling up anticipatory action”, the platform offers a plethora of workshops and discussion sessions.
From 19th until 23th September 2023 the 62nd German Congress for Geography (DKG) and Young Congress for Geography (JGK) will take place at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
