HeiGIT will present its software “ohsome quality analyst” (OQT) at the FOSSGIS Conference in Berlin this week. In the demo session, Benjamin Herfort will show the numerous possibilities of the tool and how everyone can use OQT to evaluate completeness, … Read More
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OpenStreetMap Element Vectorisation: A Tool for High Resolution Data Insights and its Usability in the Land-use and Land-cover Domain
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
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
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
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
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
New feature addition to Ohsome Quality analysT: Building Completeness Indicator
Introduction 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 … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
ohsome Region of the Month – Mapping of pandemic related facilities
At long last, welcome back to out Region of the Month-series, where we look at different regions in the world and how tags are used there. Today we would like to look at Covid-19 related OpenStreetMap tags in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. … Read More
How to become ohsome part 12 – Using length and area as a predefined filter
Hello and welcome back to part 12 of our “How to become ohsome“-blog post series! If you’re new to this series, check out other blog posts of the series as well, in order to learn how you too, can become … Read More
ohsome quality analyst (OQT) auf der FOSSGIS Konferenz am 09.03.22
Vom 9. bis zum 12. März 2022 findet die jährliche FOSSGIS Konferenz statt, die führende Konferenz für Freie und Open Source Software für Geoinformationssysteme und Open Data im deutschsprachigen Raum. HeiGIT wird dabei am 09.03. um 16:30–16:50 Bühne 2 ONLINE … Read More
How to become ohsome part 11 – counting contributions
Hello and welcome back to the How to become ohsome-blog series! We hope the new year started off well for you! If you’re new to the series, you should read our other posts in the series, as well as the … Read More
How to become ohsome part 10 – ohsome holiday contributions
Welcome back to our blog post series How to become ohsome, where you get short and simple explanations on how you can become ohsome yourself! This time, it’s all about our new endpoints, which enable you to track which contributions … Read More