Featured Image: Figure 3 from paper. One of the contributions showcased by the HeiGIT/GeoScience team in last year’s Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) 2022 conference was Moritz Schott, Sven Lautenbach, Leonie Großchen, and Alexander Zipf’s novel paper … Read More
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Sketch Map Tool Launch
We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Sketch Map Tool! The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use, open-source and free-of-charge tool which facilitates community mapping. You can use it to collect local spatial knowledge with … Read More
Cooperation between HeiGIT, the German Red Cross and the German Aerospace Center
Cover image: Team representatives from German Red Cross, DRL and HeiGIT in the replica of the European research capsule COLUMBUS, which is part of the International Space Station (ISS). Photo by Anne Schneibel, Jan. 24, 2023. Which buildings are most … Read More
Disaster openrouteservice to support the current response efforts to the Türkiye/Syria earthquake
On February 6, a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck southern Türkiye at 4:17 a.m. This is Türkiye’s most powerful earthquake recorded since 1939. The Government of Türkiye has since issued a Level 4 alarm, calling for international assistance. The quake also … Read More
Workshop on Centrality Indicators in Road Network Analysis: from concept to implementation
Centrality indicators are used to identify important nodes or edges in graph networks. Applied to road networks these indicators can for example be used to model traffic speed or identify critical roads to support disaster preparedness. Still, open challenges remain … Read More
Job Offer: Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im HeiGIT Team Support
Studentische Hilfskraft (m/w/d) im HeiGIT Team Support Liebe Studierende, wir suchen am HeiGIT baldmöglichst eine studentische Hilfskraft (30-40h/Monat) zur Unterstützung in administrativen und organisatorischen Tätigkeiten. Die HeiGIT gGmbH ist ein gemeinnütziges Start-up mit dem Ziel des Technologietransfers und der angewandten … Read More
Job Offer: Deep Learning Engineer (m/f/d, up to 100%)
Are you a highly motivated individual who loves designing and developing machine learning and deep learning systems? Do you want to use your machine learning expertise for the benefit of society and the environment? Do you want to improve the … Read More
Press Release: New tool allows look into the history of OpenStreetMap
With the OSHDB Ver. 1.0, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) releases a professional software that enables analyzing and visualizing of OpenStreetMap data development via a simple dashboard. Heidelberg, January 12, 2023. Two clicks. That’s all it takes to … Read More
Cover Story: Improving OpenStreetMap missing building detection using few-shot transfer learning in sub-Saharan Africa
Volume 26, Issue 8 of Transactions in GIS, published in December 2022, has a cover story and it’s us- well, our article anyway. Besides uniting our love of math, mapping, and Mozambique, we’re hoping to use our moment of fame … Read More
HeiGIT Team Shortlisted for Open Source Software for SDG (OSS4SDG) Challenge- Live Awards Ceremony December 7
Photo from event organizers @EU_DIGIT This week, HeiGIT is on the edge of our seats. Last month, a team at HeiGIT participated in the Open Source Software for SDG (OSS4SDG) Challenge organized by the United Nations Office of Information and … Read More
GIScience Postdoc/Senior Researcher Opportunity for OpenStreetMap Road Quality Analysis
If you’re on the job market or know someone who is, check out this exciting new opening from our partners at GIScience. The offer is included as text below. You are interested in enhancing methods for analyzing & improving OpenStreetMap … Read More
Assessing road criticality and loss of healthcare accessibility during floods: the case of Cyclone Idai, Mozambique 2019
Featured Image: Road network analysis for the driving profiles. A Normal conditions before the flood event. B Evolution of scores after the floods induced by Cyclone Idai. The lower row shows a close-up of the area surrounding the city of Dondo The ability of … Read More
OSHDB Version 1.0 Has Arrived
Featured Photo: Ohsome dashboard interface for Heidelberg, Germany. In the words of Confucius, “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” As we release OSHDB (OpenStreetMap History Database) Version 1.0, we look back at versions 0.5, … Read More
Job Opening for Postdoc / Senior Researcher on OpenStreetMap Road Quality Analysis
If you’re on the job market or know someone who is, check out this exciting new opening from our partners at GIScience. The offer is included as text below! You are interested in enhancing methods for analyzing & improving OpenStreetMap … Read More
Time to celebrate! oshdb has reached an object count of >10 billion!
As of 02.11.2022 we have reached objects 10,107,826,483* in our oshdb. As such, we think it is most definitely time to celebrate! *For information on the background this figure, read our Basic guide to OSM data filtering 😉 This blog post … Read More
ohsome Region of the month – Temporal OSM developments in Kyiv
Welcome back to our ohsome region of the month series! In this post, we’ll take a look at the temporal development of highways and added smoothness-information, as well as social facilities and updates on map development for Kyiv. Before we … Read More
Job Offer – Software Engineer OSM Routing Services
You genuinely enjoy developing open source Geoinformation Services used by thousands on a daily basis? You are a highly motivated Java Backend Developer and algorithm designer? And you love using and enhancing OpenStreetMap for high-performance GI services for global coverage? Then … Read More
Near realtime OpenStreetMap data and stats: OSHDB and ohsome API are now updated hourly
We have exciting ohsome news! As many of you know, past OSHDB updates happened weekly and led to a delay between the data in OpenStreetMap (OSM) and our database. Basically, you had to wait up to a week to see … Read More
ohsomeHeX with Quality indication from OQT
The HeiGIT team had a great time at the State of the Map 2022 in Florence. Many thanks to the participants for the fruitful discussions at our workshop! Despite the direct use of OSM as a map, more and more … Read More
Open Healthcare Access Map Update and HDX
Last year we started the Open Healthcare Access Map. Initially, only a few countries and later on continents were featured. Today, we are pleased to announce that we are releasing a number of previously missing countries, achieving global coverage. … Read More