Creating tools to map and navigate the urban (and not-so-urban) jungle has been a specialty of the HeiGIT and GIScience teams since their founding. We’ve plotted our way to the closest park through meinGrün, fostered awareness of barriers for limited-mobility … Read More
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How to become ohsome part 14 – Advanced dashboarding
Hello again and welcome back to our “How to become ohsome” series where we demonstrate how you too can become ohsome with ohsome API! If you’re new to the series or need a refresher, check out the older installments in … Read More
GIScience and HeiGIT at SotM 2022
We are happy to announce that, this year, GIScience and HeiGIT will have four contributions to the FOSS-Community “conferencathon” in Florence. As QGIS-Meeting, State of the Map, HOT unSummit and FOSS4G are all taking place consecutively, the schedule is shaping … Read More
UndercoverEisAgenten on the road
The UndercoverEisAgenten team is still on the road introducing their most recent results to the public and scientific community. On July 2, visitors to the Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) at the “Long Night of Sciences” Berlin + … Read More
How to become ohsome part 13 – An ohsome way to check if OSM is up to date
At long last, welcome to another addition of our How to become ohsome-series! This one is special because we’re discussing a third-party application that uses ohsome API as back-end to accumulate historical OSM data. Although this innovation isn’t directly about our API, … Read More
Danziger Scholarship Applications Extended to Aug. 31
Do you know an African student hoping to study at the University of Heidelberg? The Robert and Christine Danziger Scholarship deadline has been extended to August 31. Up-and-coming Master’s and doctoral students from Africa, especially Ghana and West and Central … Read More
HeiGIT at MSF Geo Week 2022
This June, MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) GIS Week 2022 was held in person again in beautiful Prague. Nearly the entire MSF team dealing with geo-data and geospatial analysis congregated at the event, which presented a fantastic opportunity to learn more … Read More
ohsomeHeX lite-mode: Mobile friendly ohsomeHeX
In the modern technological age, mobile application are necessary to reach out to the masses. Therefore, it’s critical for any web application to be available through mobile devices. In the case of ohsomeHeX, enabling use on mobile devices requires overcoming … Read More
ohsome Region of the Month: hiking-related tags & mountains
Welcome back to a new installment of the ohsome Region of the Month blog series! This will be part two our posts on hiking related tags and this time, we’ll investigate the connection between user activity and said tags. To … Read More
Understanding spatiotemporal trip purposes of urban micro-mobility from the lens of dockless e-scooter sharing
Over the last two years, we have witnessed the ever-fast growth of micro-mobility services (e.g., e-bikes and e-scooters), which brings both challenges and innovations to the traditional urban transportation systems. For example, they provide an opportunity to better address the … Read More
Audio Segment: The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) in the Campus Radio
HeiGIT aims to provide safe and easy access to geoinformation data and better orientation for humanitarian aid groups during emergency events. Traveling through a foreign city? No worries; nowadays, all standard phones are connected to satellite networks. This continuously improves … Read More
Recent feature additions to Ohsome Quality analysT
Since the release of the ohsome quality analyst (short OQT) in February of last year, we have been working on developing an accessible yet powerful toolkit which provides end users insights on the quality of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. An overview … Read More
Social Media Data for better routing of open-source navigational services
Geoinformatics researchers from Heidelberg are helping to improved the usability of geocoded information through the project “SocialMedia2Traffic”. Heidelberg 23rd of May, 2022. Navigation services require up-to-date traffic information in order to determine optimal routes and calculate the travel time. Open-source … Read More
Leveraging OpenStreetMap and Multimodal Remote Sensing Data with Joint Deep Learning for Wastewater Treatment Plants Detection
Humans rely on clean water for their health, well-being, and various socio-economic activities. During the past few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a constant reminder of about the importance of hygiene and sanitation for public health. The most common … Read More
Student Assistant (m/f/d) for Assistance with the Development of the SketchMapTool
Our team is currently looking for: Student Assistant (m/f/d) for Assistance with the Development of the SketchMapTool Your tasks will be to support our team in the further development of the SketchMapTool1. The tool is designed to support the collection … Read More
Student Assistant (m/f/d) to Support the Systemadministration
Our team is currently looking for: Student Assistant (m/f/d) to Support the Systemadministration Your tasks will mainly be situated in the administration of servers and computers, as well as to develope a system-montoring further. Besides, the developement of deployment-processes, authorization … Read More
Student Assistant (m/f/d) to Support the Big Spatial Data Analytics Teams
Our team is currently looking for: Student Assistant (m/f/d) to Support the Big Spatial Data Analytics Teams Your tasks will mainly be sitauted in the software development and the analysis of geoinforrmation (e.g. OSM). Moreover, software development with Webframeworks (Angular), … Read More
ohsome Region of the month – Back on trail
Welcome back to our Region of the Month series. If you’re hearing about this format the first time you should definitely check out some of our older blog posts, e.g. this one on the tagged forests of different places in … Read More
Spatial Data for Society – Leading HeiGIT to the Future
Underpasses, stairs, and high curbsides are a challenge for people with impaired mobility, but these can be circumnavigated using a customized route planner for increasing mobility by calculating routes with the least amount of obstacles. This example emphasizes how geoinformation technology and … Read More
UndercoverEisAgenten on Social Media
The project UndercoverEisAgenten aims to gather reliable and up-to-date data on the thawing of the permafrost in collaboration with citizen scientists. The project invites citizens from Germany and Canada to join researchers in collecting data on visible landscape disturbances in … Read More