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Image on the right: © sig_3co, Panoramax; Figure on the left illustrates the workflow and challenges of extracting road attributes from 3-4m PlanetScope imagery.

New Global Satellite Dataset for Humanitarian Routing and Tracking Infrastructure Change

A new global dataset released by the HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute…

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Empowering cities to act: The Climate Action Navigator highlights where climate action is most needed

Empowering cities to act: The Climate Action Navigator highlights where climate action is most needed

What does a climate-neutral, livable city look like – and…

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Accurate road surface data for transportation, safety, and economic development

Researchers at HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) have publicly…

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Staying Safe in the Heat: Routing App for Heidelberg

As summer temperatures soar, the health risks associated with heat…

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Unveiling the Sketch Map Tool 2.0: A Comprehensive Overview of New Features and Training Opportunities

The HeiGIT gGmbH (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) team has…

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Advancing Climate Action: HeiGIT’s New Climate Action Team

HeiGIT is embarking on an initiative to address one of…

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‘Waterproofing Data’ Project wins ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2023

The “Waterproofing Data” project has won the ESRC Celebrating Impact…

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More food, more water, less carbon? Costs and benefits of global land-use optimality

Re-arranging food production: How we could use the vegetation zones…

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Safely through the heat with HEAL: Transdisciplinary project helps at-risk groups in everyday life

The transdisciplinary project HEAL involves citizens in the research process…

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New Publication in “Nature Communications” on the Unequal Distribution of Building Data in OSM

Benjamin Herfort and his colleagues Sven Lautenbach, JoĂŁo Porto de…

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Participatory Mapping taken one step further – The new version of the Sketch Map Tool

Sketch Map Tool (SMT) – An easy-to-use way to create…

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Activation of the Disaster Portal for the earthquake in TĂĽrkiye/Syria

During catastrophic events such as the recent TĂĽrkiye/Syria earthquake, the…

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This is what the dashboard used to access the OSHDB data looks like.

Press Release: New tool allows look into the history of OpenStreetMap

With the OSHDB Ver. 1.0, the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation…

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Social Media Data for better routing of open-source navigational services

Geoinformatics researchers from Heidelberg are helping to improved the usability…

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Spatial Data for Society – Leading HeiGIT to the Future

Underpasses, stairs, and high curbsides are a challenge for people…

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UndercoverEisAgenten – “UndercoverEisAgenten” – Enabling Citizen Scientists to Monitor Permafrost Degradation

The impact of climate change is particularly strong in higher…

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AUF DIREKTEM WEG ZUR CORONA-IMPFUNG – Meldung der Universität Heidelberg

Die Universität Heidelberg berichtet aktuell ĂĽber impfzentrum.openrouteservice.org NEUER ROUTENPLANER ERMITTELT…

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Title slide with text 'Transparency and Trust in Collaborative Mapping: Concerns and Dilemmas in AI-Generated Road Integration within OpenStreetMap' on a background showing a map and a network diagram.

New Paper “Transparency and Trust in Collaborative Mapping: Concerns and Dilemmas in AI-Generated Road Integration within OpenStreetMap”

Automatically generated map data has become far more common, reducing…

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Person wearing a backpack riding a bicycle on a tree-lined path with sunlight filtering through.

hiBike Release: New Greenness, Detours, and Summary Features for Improved Bikeability Analysis

The Climate Action Navigator now includes also greenness, detours, and…
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Year In Review: Looking Back At 2025 And Ahead To 2026

2025 was an exciting year for HeiGIT, full of new…

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Rethinking Humanitarian Routing: When Every Minute and Mile Matter

In humanitarian emergencies, delivering relief in time is key. Every…

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Aerial view of polygonal patterns in green tundra near a blue water body, typical of permafrost terrain. Text: New Paper- Monitoring Arctic Permafrost – Examining the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Mapping Ice-Wedge Polygons

New Paper on the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Mapping Arctic Permafrost

A recent study within the UndercoverEisAgenten project demonstrates that citizen…
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A woman presenting a slide titled "How does it work?" to an audience in a conference room. The text reads "Geoinformatics meets Global Health, Global Digital Health Research Alumni Project Week."

Geoinformatics meets Global Health at the Global Digital Health Project Week

Last week, the “Global Digital Health” Research Alumni Project Week…

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Nine 3D scatter plots showing relationships between meteorological variables and PM2.5 concentrations in Temuco, Chile, with a color scale from blue to red.

New paper “Influence of Meteorological Variables on PM2.5 Concentrations in Cities Heated with Solid Fuels: A Case Study from Temuco, Chile”

Air pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PMâ‚‚.â‚…) is a…

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World map showing clusters of active OpenStreetMap users and their edits in 2025, represented by red and dark red circles of varying sizes.

Moving to ohsomeDB

At State of the Map Europe 2025, we have introduced…
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Image on the right: © sig_3co, Panoramax; Figure on the left illustrates the workflow and challenges of extracting road attributes from 3-4m PlanetScope imagery.

New Global Satellite Dataset for Humanitarian Routing and Tracking Infrastructure Change

A new global dataset released by the HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute…

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Aerial view of an abandoned sugarcane processing facility with a tall chimney and surrounding green fields under a clear sky.

New Paper “Predisposing Factors of Sugarcane Abandonment in Rio de Janeiro: Exploring Policy Implications”

This study investigates sugarcane farmland abandonment in Rio de Janeiro…

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Grüne bewaldete Hügel unter bewölktem Himmel.

HGG Lecture – Large-scale forest and climate protection? A critical look at carbon trading post

Tropical forests are home to a high level of biodiversity…

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HeiGIT at the ISPRS/ISDE Conference

The potential of VGI for Geo-digitalization for Sustainable Development -…
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Event banner illustrating our contributions to the ELLIS Unconference.

Our contributions to the ELLIS UnConference

Our contributions to the ELLIS UnConference workshop on AI for…
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Our contribution to NeurIPS 2025

This year, our research team member Dr. Steffen Knoblauch will…
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Workshop poster titled 'Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Advancing Urban Cycling' with date, time, and six speaker headshots and names, including titles and affiliations from various urban and environmental research institutions.

Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Advancing Urban Cycling

Danielle Gatland from HeiGIT will present her work on “hiBike:…

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