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Lecture
This HGG lecture is given by students from the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University who participated in the Vietnam excursion.
Conference
At this year’s AGIT conference in Salzburg, Austria, HeiGIT will host a poster session to our new Silver Ways project, developing a walkable routing system to cater the needs of older adults.
Conference
HeiGIT is participating in this year’s ICUC12 – 12th International Conference on Urban Climate, which is taking place from 7 to 11 July in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. HeiGIT will be presenting in the session “Recent advancements in monitoring and modelling urban greenhouse gas emissions”.
Lecture
The last HGG lecture of this summer term 2025 will look at the terraced landscapes in the Peruvian Andes, focussing on human-environment interactions.
Mapathon
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.
Workshop
In this interactive workshop at the KIT Science Week 2025, participants can learn about active mobility while mapping their city.
Conference
At the end of March, geoEpi’s participation in the 2023 CGA Conference “From Geospatial Research to Health Solutions” highlighted this invaluable research overlap and presented promising avenues for future collaboration.
Workshop
HeiGIT will present its software “ohsome quality analyst” (OQT) at the FOSSGIS Conference in Berlin this week.
Workshop
The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use, open-source and free-of-charge tool which facilitates community mapping.
Ceremony
This week, HeiGIT is on the edge of our seats at Live Awards Ceremony.
mapathon
Der Klimawandel, Grenz- und Wasserkonflikte stellen enorme Herausforderungen für die aktuelle und kommenden Generationen dar. In all diesen Bereichen und darüber hinaus bietet die Geographie einmalige Chancen, zielgerichtet Lösungen zu erarbeiten.
Conference
We are happy to announce that, this year, GIScience and HeiGIT will have four contributions to the FOSS-Community "conferencathon" in Florence.
Discussion
The representatives of the various groups and organizations give an introduction to OpenStreetMap (OSM) and humanitarian mapping in general.
Presentation
Within the recently completed project SocialMedia2Traffic, we have developed a system to model traffic speed of urban roads depending on the time of day.
Conference
Dr. Carolin Klonner (GIScience Research Group) and Melanie Eckle-Elze (HeiGIT) will be supporting the Urban Context Unit of German Red Cross (GRC) in the “Data and Digitalisation in Urban Humanitarian Action” session.

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