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Sunlight filtering through large trees lining a city street with people walking and vehicles moving

When tree shade points the way

Analysis tool shows where shade already exists and where trees…
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Heat-Resilient Mobility in 80 Major German Cities and an Invitation to Shape Its Future

The new HeiGIT application shows how digital geodata can make…

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A map is better than a thousand words: global data reveals gaps in access to education and healthcare

Numbers alone do not show whether a child can reach…

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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, João 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 Türkiye/Syria

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

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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 über impfzentrum.openrouteservice.org NEUER ROUTENPLANER ERMITTELT…

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Collecting Street-Level Imagery in Mozambique to Advance Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Logistics

HeiGIT and Data4MOZ have launched a collaboration to collect street-level…
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New Paper “Indoor Dwelling Habitability: Conceptual Evolution, Methods, and Key Variables from a Systematic Review”

Indoor dwelling habitability affects health, comfort, and housing performance, but…
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Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2025

Every November, the #30DayMapChallenge encourages people around the world to…

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Looking Back at the #30DayMapChallenge 2024

Each November, the #30DayMapChallenge invites people worldwide to create and…

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Advancing GeoAI through International Collaboration

HeiGIT recently welcomed Prof. Dr. Wenwen Li and Prof. Dr….
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Sunlight filtering through large trees lining a city street with people walking and vehicles moving

When tree shade points the way

Analysis tool shows where shade already exists and where trees…
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Update of the roadmap toward the new ohsome API 2.0

Last year, we published our initial roadmap toward ohsome 2.0,…

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Map showing the complex border layout of Baarle-Hertog with irregular shapes and enclaves

Rebuilding geometry assembly from the ground up with ohsome-planet 1.3.1

We are releasing version 1.3.1 of ohsome-planet under the codename…
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Dynamic routing for disaster response in Venezuela

Following the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela on June 24, 2026,…

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A Computer Vision Workshop with Tomorrow’s Mappers

At Explore Science 2026, young students experimented with computer vision…
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Mapping with Communities at IDRiM 2026

The 16th International Conference of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management…

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Poster for GIScience Colloquium titled 'The Road to Clean Air' with details about a lecture by Dr. Jules Kerckhoffs from Utrecht University on August 27, 2026, at Heidelberg University, featuring logos of Heigit and Universität Heidelberg.

GIScience Colloquium: The Road to Clean Air

The GIScience Colloquium welcomes Dr. Jules Kerckhoffs from Utrecht University…

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Open GeoAI for Climate Action at FOSS4G 2026

FOSS4G Hiroshima 2026 is a chance for developers, researchers, practitioners,…

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Poster with text about OHSOME 2.0 at State of the Map 2026 workshop and talk details including dates August 28-30, 2026, and location Paris, France, with logos of Heigit and another organization

Ohsome 2.0 at State of the Map 2026

State of the Map is the annual event for all…

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Geospatial AI at COP17 UNCCD

The 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations…

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