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"OpenStreetMap 3D at the boot exhibition" - Friday February 5th 2010 - Martin Over |
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The "UNIGIS-Academic-Excellence-Prize-2009 for MasterThesis" - Tuesday December 8th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
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The Master Thesis of Christoph Amleunxen receives the UNIGIS-Academic-Excellence-Prize-2009.
The title of the thesis is "An Approach to Geocoding based on Volunteered Spatial Data" and deals with improving the OpenLS GeoCoder of OpenRouteService.org based on OpenStreetMap.
The thesis was written with UNIGIS but in cooperation with our research group and co-supervized by Prof. Zipf.
(UNIGIS)
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"Cartography Research Group at the Ruhr3.de exhibition & NWSIB NRW day" - Monday November 2th 2009 - Martin Over |
Prof. Zipf presented a talk about the OpenStreetMap project at the parallel exhibition of the Strasseninformationsbank Nordrhein Westfalen (NWSIB).
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At the "Rostock-3D: First complete 3D City Model based on OpenStreetMap data with real building heights" - Monday September 14th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
Finaly the first complete Virtual City Model (CityGML LOD1) based on OpenStreetMap data was generated for the City of Rostock. The Kataster-, Vermessungs- und Liegenschaftsamt (KVL) Rostock donated the footprints of all buildings of Rostock after a falsification of less than one meter.
On request of the Cartography Research Group the KVL also provided the height information of all the buildings in August 2009.
The import has now been completed.
As a result the city can be explored interactively in 3D via our W3DS Client at OMS-3D.
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Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen" erfolgreich durchgeführt - Monday September 14th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
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Zum sechsten Mal fand das Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste" statt. Dieses Jahr wurde die Veranstaltung von der Arbeitsgruppe Zipf organisiert und am Geographischen Institut in Bonn am 10. und 11.09. durchgeführt. Fast 40 Teilnehmer diskutierten interdisziplinäre Themen im Bereich ortsbezogener Anwendungen und Diensten.
Weitere Informationen: www.wireless-earth.de
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Rollstuhlrouting.de geht Online - Friday September 11th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
Ein erster Prototyp eines Routenplaners für Rollstuhlfahrer ist online unter www.rollstuhlrouting.de verfügbar. Er basiert auf den freien Geodaten von OpenStreetMap und einer erweiterten Version von OpenRouteService. Das Testgebiet umfasst die Innenstadt Bonn.
Weitere Informationen im Rolli-Wiki. |
Beitrag zu OSM-Rollstuhlrouting in "Quarks&Co" - Friday September 11th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
Am Dienstag, den 15.09.09. läuft in der Wissenschaftssendung "Quarks & Co" im WDR-Fernsehen ab 21.00 Uhr eine Sendung zum Thema "Karten".
Hierbei wird auch das Projekt Rollstuhlrouting vorgestellt, das einen ersten Prototyp einer barrierefreien Wegeplanung auf Basis von OpenStreetMap.org und einer erweiterten Version von OpenRouteService.org realisiert.
Weitere Informationen unter: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki
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Sportlich: Team Kartographie beim "Firmenlauf Bonn" - Thursday September 10th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
Mit Spaß und Freude auch außerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Arbeit immer zu Höchstleistungen bereit: Am 3. Firmenlauf Bonn am 10.09.09 zeigte das "Team Kartographie" auch abends noch sportlichen Ehrgeiz und Elan.
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Christian Mayer erhält Preis für besten Studienabschluss - Thursday September 10th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
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Unser Mitarbeiter Dipl.Ing. (FH) Christian Mayer erhielt am 04.09.2009 den diesjährigen Harbert-Buchpreis des DVW (Deutscher Verein für Vermessungswesen e.V.) für den besten Studienabschluss im Fach Vermessung und Geoinformatik des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz. Wir gratulieren sehr herzlich!
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First results from agent-based evacuation simulation - Wednesday September 9th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
Evacuation simulation in case of disasters and emergency situations is the topic of a work package in our project GDI-GRID. First results of a simulation covering the city of Heidelberg are shown in the image below. The simulation is embedded in an OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) and is being transferred to the middleware for D-GRID computing clusters. |
3D Routing through OpenStreetMap 3D available at OSM-3D.org - Monday July 6th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
 User now can plan a route online at OSM-3D.org and then interactively fly along the route presented in 3D.
Currently the routing is available for cars (fastest/shortest) as well as for pedestrians or bicycles for all of Germany.
It is also possible to create an animation that follows the 3D route automatically. The application is powered by an extended version of OpenRouteService.org and uses the free data from OpenStreetMap.org and the OpenLS interface specifications of the Open Geospatial Consortium. The data from OSM-3D.org is generated by combining data from OpenStreetMap and SRTM elevation data. Start and Stop of the route can be specified by picking into the 3D scene or by searching for adresses using the OSM-based OpenLS geocoder. Turn by turn instructions are available for several languages. Further options inludce a graph of the height profile of the route and others. The new download version of the XNavigator W3DS-Client also supports the integration of dynamic sensor data (air pollution, water gauge etc.) into the 3D scene in a first version. http://www.osm-3d.org |
New project "Flex-I-Geo-Web" has started - Tuesday July 6th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
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A new project aiming at the development of a flexible toolbox for the generation of intuitive GI Web applications has just started.
A first use case will be a 3D management tool for empty building lots for improving the sustainable urban development.
The project is called "Flex-I-Geo-Web - Flexible Bausteine zur Entwicklung intuitiver Geo-Webanwendungen - Das Beispiel
"Baulückenmanager - 3D-Stadtmodellierung zur nachhaltigen regionalen Siedlungsentwicklung" and is funded by IKT.NRW. The project is a cooperation between serveral partners of the "Geoinitiative Bonn". |
More than one Million Buildings in our OSM Database - Friday June 26th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
OpenStreetMap is still growing extremely fast. In the weekly update of our geodatabase of Europe on 24.June 2009 we have imported 1.132.026 buildings from OpenStreetMap. This geodatabase is used both for http://www.osm-wms.de, the directory service of http://www.OpenRouteService.org and for generating the 3D buildings for OpenStreetMap 3D: http://www.osm-3d.org.
The latter is currently covering Germany with several hundred thousand 3D buildings. |
Shaded Relief for Europe available at OSM-WMS.de as Overlay - Monday June 8th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
There is a new hillshade layer (shaded relief) available at http://www.osm-wms.de.
Currently it covers (most) of Europe. As it is transparent it is particularily suited as overlay for other maps.
It can be used for free in non-profit applications.
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Steve Coast visits OSM-Conference in Bonn - Monday June 8th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
The founder of the OpenStreetMap project - Steve Coast - has visited the "OpenStreetMap im Rheinland"-Conference in Bonn.
He was delighted about the innovative applications based on OSM presented there, such as a 3D flythrough at OSM-3D.org or wheelchair routing with OpenRouteService.org and more.
Presentations, reports and photos from the conference, that was organized together with this years deegree day can be found at the following sites: degreeday.degree.org |
Successful OGC OWS-6 Testbed showcases 3D Indoor Routing and more - Wednesday May 17th 2009 - Arne Schilling |
XNavigator is shown as an integrated client in the OGC Web Services, Phase 6
(OWS-6) final demonstration. The client is a decision support tool for first
responders in an emergency case. It is used for accessing and combining
multiple OGC services including Web Map Service (WMS), Catalog Service
(CSW), Web Feature Service (WFS), Open Location Services (OpenLS) Route
Service, and the experimental Web Map Tiling Service (WMTS). The dynamically
downloaded spatial information and 3D city models is used for assessing the
situation on site. The route service is used for calculating 3D driving
instructions as well as for finding interiour access routes to locations
within buildings. The demonstration shows how 3D indoor routes can be
visualized and combined with LOD4 indoor CityGML models.See the OWS demonstrations on the OGC website http://www.opengeospatial.org/ |
Call für Papers: 6. Fachgespräch "Ortsbezogene Anwendungen und Dienste". - Monday May 15th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
The Call for Papers for the 6th expert meeting on "Location-based applications and services" has been published.The meeting will take place at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn on September 10. and 11. 2009. Abstracts Deadline: 1st August 2009 The call and further information can be found here |
Veranstaltung: "OpenStreetMap im Rheinland" am 26.05.2009 im "ceasar". - Monday May 4th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
 Im Vorfeld des "deegree day 2009" veranstaltet das Geographische Institut der Universität Bonn zusammen mit der Firma latlon GmbH Bonn am 26.05.1009 im Forschungsezntrum caesar (Bonn) die kostenfreie Veranstaltung "OpenStreetMap im Rheinland". Im Rahmen der Veranstaltung soll ein Forum zum Kennenlernen und zur Darstellung der Aktivitäten der OSM-Community geboten werden. In einem Vortragsblock werden Beiträge von Mappern, Usern und anderen Interessierten vorgestellt und diskutiert. Weitere Informationen zu dieser Veranstaltung finden Sie unter |
OpenRouteService mentioned in "Zeit Online". - Monday April 30th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
 Our OpenRouteService.our has been mentioned in the renowned "Zeit Online" online newspaper.http://www.zeit.de/online/2009/18/openstreetmap-anders?page=1 "With OpenRouteService you can calculate routes from Hamburg to Rome– not only for cars, but also for pedestrians and cyclists. This offers no other routing service". |
Article about OpenStreetMap-3D in "Technology Review" magazine. - Monday April 20th 2009 - Alexander Zipf |
An article in the German version of the magazine "Technology Review - The M.I.T. Magazine for Innovation" introduces shortly the project OpenStreetMap-3D, the first nation-wide 3D-version of OpenStreetMap which is available as online 3D Web Service. (TR 5/2009, page 20).
More information, the prototype, screenshots and videos are avaialable at OSM-3D.org . |
OpenRouteService mentioned in "Spiegel" magazine. - Monday April 20th 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
OpenRouteService.org - the platform for Location-Based Services (LBS) and Routing based on OpenLS standards and user-generated content from OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the topic of a short article in the issue 17/2009 page 123 of the German news magazin "Spiegel".
More information at OpenRouteService.org |
Image of the Week in OpenStreetMap Wiki - Friday March 27th 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
A screenshot from http://www.osm-3d.org is Image of the Week in the OpenStreetMap Wiki. It shows results from our research project 'Geodata Infrastructure 3D
<http://www.gdi-3d.de>' combining OpenStreetMap data and Shuttle Radar
Topography Mission (SRTM) elevation data.
Reference: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page |
Integrating Video-Feeds through Sensor Observation Services (OGC SOS) in GDI-3D.de - Monday March 23th 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
 In addition to the existing sensor values for gauges (water level), temperatur, wind, air pollution etc. now also Video Feeds from WebCams have been integrated in the W3DS-Client XNavigator from GDI-3D.de. The example shows a screenshot from Heidelberg-3d.de. |
Christian Mayer gewinnt Förderpreis Geoinformatik 2009 - Monday March 13th 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
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Aktuell beschäftigt sich Herr Mayer u.a. mit dem Thema "Sensorintegration in 3D-GDI" <http://www.geovisualisierung.net/geoviz_hamburg/papers/11_2_Mayer.pdf> Förderpreis Geoinformatik 2009: http://www.rtg.bv.tum.de/content/view/374/142/ |
Unser Mitarbeiter Dipl. ing. (FH) Christian Mayer ist einer der beiden Preisträger des Förderpreises Geoinformatik 2009, der im Rahmen des 14. Münchner Fortbildungsseminars Geoinformationssysteme vom "Runder Tisch GIS e.V." verliehen wurde. Er erhält den Preis für seine Diplomarbeit "Nutzung von Verkehrsfunkdaten des Traffic Message Channel über OGC Sensor Web" im Studiengang Geoinformatik und Vermessung der FH Mainz (Betreuung Prof. Zipf). OpenStreetMap 3D - entire Germany available as Web 3D Service (W3DS) - Monday March 02 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
 The user-generated geodata of OpenStreetMap (OSM) and the elevation data of the Shuttle Topography Mission (SRTM) were integrated in a standard based 3D Geodata Infrastructure (GDI-3D) for entire Germany. Using the W3DS-Client XNavigator you can explore the virtual 3D model of entire Germany on your computer. More information @ http://www.osm-3d.org |
Best Paper Award at GEOWS 2009 - Monday March 02 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
 The paper "Extending Spatial Data Infrastructures 3D by Geoprocessing Functionality - 3D Simulations in Disaster Management and Environmental Research" by Walenciak, G., Stollberg, B., Neubauer, S. and Zipf, A. has been awarded a best paper award at the International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems & Web Services (GEOWS 2009). Cancun. Mexico. -->see pdf |
Yet another OpenStreetMap WMS - Wednesday February 18 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
Yet another OpenStreetMap Map Service for Europe is available at OSM-WMS.de
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6 Million buildings of NRW-3D integrated in GDI-3D.de - Wednesday February 18 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
 More than 6 million LOD1 buildings of NRW have successfully been integrated in the web-based 3D geospatial data infrastructure (GDI-3D.de) through a cooperation with GEOBasis.nrw - the former Department of Surveying NorthRhine-Westphalia (NRW). The goal of the project is to evaluate the performance, scalability and security of our implementations of the OGC 3D Portrayal Services, such as the Web 3D Service (W3DS) in combination with the 3D-Client XNavigator. Screenshots and videos are available at www.NRW-3D.de. |
OpenRouteService.org covers Europe and beyond - Monday February 09 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
 The OpenGIS Location Services (OpenLS) of OpenRouteService.org cover now all European states and some of the surrounding areas based on user-generated OpenStreetMap data.
This is true for all of the services of OpenRouteService, such as routing (pedestrian, bicycle, car), geocoder/reverse geocoder (OpenLS Utility Service), spatial POI-search (OpenLS Directory Service), Web Map Service (WMS) and further specialized services such as the accessibility analysis service (AAS). OpenRouteService covers currently a rectangle around the European States from Island to Portugal and in the east slightly beyond the boarders of Turkey and includes the western part of Russia up to Moscow. |
OpenRouteService in Nasa WorldWind - Monday February 09 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
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The OpenGIS Location Services offered by OpenRouteService.org have been integrated into the virtual globe NASA WorldWind by a group of students of the University of Münster. OpenRouteService now delivers routing and directions, location based search (directory service), geocoder etc. for Europe to the Java version of Nasa WorldWind (WWJ). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-zl70j6koE http://openrouteservice.org |
Institute of Computer Science models safety scenarios with OpenRouteService - Monday January 10 2009 - Alexander
Zipf |
The Communication Systems Research Group of the Institute of Computer Science IV
(Prof. Martini) at the University of Bonn uses OpenRouteService within their
research on realistic scenarios for network performance evluation.
Dr. Aschenbruck's goal is to provide realistic mobility models for urban public
safety scenarios based on routes calculated by the OpenRouteService. This
demonstrates the synergy between the work of the Research Group Cartography  and
the Department of Computer Science.http://openrouteservice.org |
Merry Christmas-Routing by Santa... - Monday December 22 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
The research group cartography whishes a peaceful Christmas and a happy New Year! |
WMS für Stadtklima Heidelberg Online - Monday December 23 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
Zwei Karten aus dem Gutachten "Stadtklima Heidelberg" Prof. Karrasch 1995, Herausgegeben von der Stadt Heidelberg
wurden neu digitalisert und stehen nun als interaktive Karte im Internet zur Verfügung.
Ausserdem wurde die Gebäudedichte auf einem 100 Meter Raster neu berechnet und kann als weitere Kartenebene dargestellt werden.
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The first mobile navigation system for the Google Android Platform is powered by OpenRouteService - Monday December 15 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
 AndNav is the first mobile navigation system for the Google Android Platform (http://www.android.com). It uses maps from OpenStreetMap and the range of OpenLS services provided by our OpenRouteService LBS platform (Routing, POI-Search, Accessibility analysis, AvoidAreas, etc). The AndNav feature list http://www.andnav.org/index.php/features mentiones further features such as the possibility to contribute GPX-traces back to the OSM-project. T-Mobile has announced the availability of the first Google Android phone (G1) in Germany in Q1 2009. It is already available in the UK and in the US.http://andnav.org/ http://openrouteservice.org |
Das erste Werk der Buchreihe "OpenGIS essentials - Die Geo-Standards von OGC und ISO im Überblick" veröffentlicht - Monday December 1 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
 Die Reihe OpenGIS essentials, wendet sich an Praktiker, Studierende und Lehrende, die sich mit dem Thema âOpenGISâ beschäftigen und bietet einen Überblick über vorhandene Spezifikationen zu einem Themenfeld,  alle wesentlichen Informationen aus den entsprechenden OGC-Dokumenten und ISO-Standards,  verständlich aufbereitete und durchgängig vierfarbig illustrierte Inhalte in deutscher Sprache und  Hinweise auf weiterführende Literatur und interessante Links. Die Reihe wird herausgegeben von Christine Andrae, Jens Fitzke und Alexander Zipf. Die Website zur Reihe â http://www.opengis-essentials.de â bietet weiterführende Links, Ergänzungen und Korrekturen sowie ein Forum für Diskussionen. Der erste Band Spatial Schema behandelt eines der grundlegenden Konzepte für die Modellierung geometrischer und topologischer Objekte in der OpenGIS-Welt. Das hier vorgestellte Spatial Schema im ISO-Standard 19107 definiert ein grundlegendes Datenmodell für Vektordaten. Das Werk bietet allgemein einen Überblick über das Geometrie- und Topologiemodell der OpenGIS-Welt, erklärt die Modelle und erläutert sämtliche Eigenschaften und Methoden der Objektklassen. Weitere Bände sind in Vorbereitung. |
Open Location Services for whole of Europe based on OpenGIS Services and OpenStreetMap - Thursday November 20 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
 Both, the first European-wide location-based "Directory Service" (yellow pages / POI-search) and also a (reverse) GeoCoder based on open standards (Open Location Services specification by OGC) and open geodata from OpenStreetMap are available at www.OpenRouteService.org.This means that through the OpenLS directory service you can search for Points of Interests (POIs) of different types. The user can specify a location and a search distance and the categories of POIs to be found. Currently more than 50 different categories of objects are available. These are based on relevant tags of OpenStreetMap. Also the OpenLS Utility Service (Geocoder/ReverseGeocoder) is now available for the whole of Europe through OpenRouteService (beta-version). This means it is possible to get the coordinates for a given address (city & streetname). Vice versa it is possible to return addresses for a given set of coordinates. Further also the ORS Web Map Service (OGC WMS) now covers the whole of Europe (also the TileCache version). These three services work also in European countries, which are not yet supported by the routing functionality of OpenRouteService. |
GDI-3D-Technology supports CityGML - Friday November 14 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
 Only shortly after CityGML became an official OGC standard it was also supported as import format for the GDI-3D technology. The CityGML data is being processed into an optimized 3D visualization format and stored in a special 3D geodatabase for efficient web-based visualization through streaming.CityGML Website |
OpenRouteService supports France and Spain - Friday November 14 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
 The ORS OpenLS Route Service (pedestrian, bicycle, car) and our Accessibility Analysis Service (AAS) is now available also for France and Spain in addition to the 8 European countries from Italy to Danmark or UK that have been already supported earlier. Support for further countries is under development.
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GDI-3D / Heidelberg-3D im Leitfadens "GEODIENSTE im Internet" der GDI-DE Monday November 6 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 Die überarbeitete 2. Auflage des Leitfadens "GEODIENSTE im Internet" wurde Ende September 2008 zur Intergeo von der Koordinierungsstelle GDI-DE am Bundesamt für Geodäsie und Kartographie veröffentlicht. Im Leitfaden wird im Ausblick der in www.GDI-3D.de umgesetzte Web3DService (W3DS) vorgestellt und am Beispiel einer Abbildung von Heidelberg-3D illustriert.
Die Geodateninfrastruktur in Deutschland (GDI-DE) ist ein gemeinsames Vorhaben von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen.
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| The RGC participates in the "Delhi Transit Routing Pilot Interoperability Initiative" (DTRIP) Monday October 20 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 The Research Group Cartography has been choosen to participate in a joint test bed activity by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and GIS Development Pvt Ltd (India)Â ith the goal to advance OGCs open framework for geospatial data and systems interoperability in the context of transportation planning for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India.
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| New Videos show new features of www.heidelberg-3d.de - Monday October 13 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 The following videos showing new features of the Heidelberg-3D system are
now available online:Neuenheimer Feld (ca. 17 MB) Suchfunktion, Fly-Through Klinik Bergheim (ca. 156MB) 3D Styling und Umkreissuche (ca 65 MB) Level of Detail Technik (ca 75MB) Emissionsszenario mit Innenraum-Visualisierung  (ca 79MB) Thematische Geländedarstellung (ca. 50MB) For viewing the videos the DIVX video codec needs to be installed. |
| Research Group Cartography participates in OGC OWS6 Testbed with CityGML 3D Flythrough Saturday October 11 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 OWS testbeds are part of OGC's Interoperability Program, a global, hands-on and collaborative prototyping programdesigned to rapidly develop, test and deliver proven candidate specifications into OGC's Specification Program. We have been selected to participate in the OWS6 threads on "Decision Support Services" (DSS) and "Geo Processing Workflow" (GPW) based on technologies from www.gdi-3d.de |
| GDI-3D.de is OGC Website of the Month - Saturday October 11 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| GDI-3D.de featuring Heidelberg-3D online is OGC 'Website of the Month' in October 2008.
for further information see OGC Newsletter Oct. 2008 |
Online-article about Heidelberg 3D on GeoConnexion.com - Tuesday October 7 2008 - Alexander
Zipf |
 "A three-dimensional spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for the city of Heidelberg is freely available as part of Project GDI3D at http://www.gdi-3d.de. The goal of the project - funded by the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation in Heidelberg - is to develop new technologies and standards for the interoperable processing, visualization and analysis of 3D city and landscape models. The website offers both German and English versions."Read the full article |
| Open location services improve logistics in disaster management - Tuesday October 7 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
Chair of Cartography of the University of Bonn supports UN-disaster management operations in Haiti after hurricane Ike with an OGC-based emergency route service based on OpenRouteService.org and OpenStreetmap.org.
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| GI_Testbed: OGC-EUROSDR-AGIlLE persistent test bed for Europe - Wednesday 1 November 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
The research group cartography of the University of Bonn participates in the OGC-EUROSDR-AGIlLE persistent test bed for Europe. This testbed acts as a research test-bed for collaborative European research in geospatial interoperability:
The distributed test-bed will be based upon both ISO/OGC geospatial standards and appropriate IT standards (e.g. from W3C and OASIS). |
To aid the assessment of the current standards for geospatial interoperability in terms of research compatibility, completeness, consistency and ease of use and extensibility| OpenRouteService.org Preview October 2008 - new features coming - Friday September, 12th 2008 - A. Zipf |
 Preview on new features of OpenRoutService coming in October 2008:
faster routing and increased usabilty...see video http://www.openrouteservice.org/ -> news |
| Neues BMBF Projekt "Sutren-3D - Interaktive Analysewerkzeuge für einen Atlas gescannter Sutratexte" gestartet - Friday September, 12th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| In der Provinz Sichuan in Südwest-China finden sich in den Fels gemeißelte Inschriften von buddhistischen Texten aus dem 8.-12. Jh. Diese von chinesischer Seite bisher nur wenig untersuchte bedeutende Gruppe von Steinschriften liegt wie ein Netz über der Landschaft. Die Texte werfen ein neues Licht auf die Geschichte des Buddhismus in China, auf seine Anpassung an die chinesische Kultur (Sinisierung), sowie auf die intensive Auseinandersetzung der buddhistischen Religion mit dem säkularen Staat.
Ziel des Projektes ist es, diese Inschriften archäologisch, kunsthistorisch, sprachwissenschaftlich und geographisch zu dokumentieren und zu analysieren, und die geisteswissenschaftlichen Daten in einem Web-basierten Geoinformationssystem mit exaktem Zeit- und Raumbezug mit solchen Daten zusammenzuführen, welche durch die Entwicklung neuer Methoden in den Ingenieurwissenschaften (Vermessung, Laserscanning) und der Geoinformatik und Kartographie gewonnen werden. Eine Infrastruktur zur Verwaltung der aufgenommenen Daten auf Basis offener OGC Standards soll aufgebaut werden. Die Ergebnisse werden in englischer und chinesischer Sprache in eine gemeinsame Datenbank integriert und anderen Wissenschaftlern und der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung gestellt. Kooperationsprojekt im BMBF-Förderschwerpunkt âWechselwirkungen zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaftenâ Kooperationspartner: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Prof. Dr. Lothar Ledderose und Institut für Raumbezogene Informations und Messtechnik (i3mainz), Fachhochschule Mainz, Prof. Dr. Frank Boochs. |
| Several European countries added to OpenRouteService.org - Monday August, 18th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 OpenRouteService now supports routing from Danmark to Italy. Not only Germany, but also the countries Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Denmark and Liechtenstein are currently supported by the OpenLS Routing Service and also the OpenLS Directory Service (POI Search), the OGC WMS and WFS used by OpenRouteService.org. |
| OpenLS Directory Service integrated into GDI-3D using OSM data - Friday August, 15th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 It is now possible to access an OpenLS Directory Service, perform spatial queries for Points of Interest (POIs) and display them in 3D within our W3DS-Client XNavigator. XNavigator has been implemented for visualizing web-based 3D city and landscape models delivered through a OGC Web 3D Service (W3DS). A first example application is Heidelberg-3D that can be accessed at www.gdi-3d.de. The POIs have been imported from the OpenStreetMap data. They contain a variety of important and interesting locations like shops, ATMs, cafes, pharmacies, bus stops, hotels, night clubs, and many more. The possible categories are unlimited and the data is being extended rapidly. The user can click on the map and search for specific types of locations within a selected radius. The result is shown as 3D labels using the OSM symbols. |
| Neues Projektseminar "Volunteered Geography" im WS 08/09 - Wednesday August, 6th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| Von Benutzern freiwillig beigesteuerte Inhalte sind der Grundpfeiler erfolgreicher Anwendungen im Web 2.0. Ein Paradebeispiel ist die Online-Enzyklopädie-Wikipedia. Trotz (oder gerade wegen?) ihrer offenen Architektur (jeder Benutzer darf jeden Artikel ändern), zeichnet sie sich durch hohe Qualität und Aktualität der enthaltenen Informationen aus. Auch Geoinformationen können, insbesondere dank GPS-Technologie, durch die freiwillige Kollaboration vieler Individuen generiert werden â Volunteered Geography...[Details] Dipl.-Geogr. Sebastian Schmitz & Dipl.-Inf. Julian Hagenauer Ü1, Do. 10-12, Praxis im Semester. |
| OpenRouteService supports TMC - Saturday July, 26th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 OpenRouteService.org now supports the use RDS-TMC (Traffic Message Channel) messages in a first version. The TMC messages indicate traffic jams, construction works or other causes for potential delays.The messages are parsed from a radio receiver and integrated into a OGC Web Feature Service (WFS) through a service chain using OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) and OGC Web Processing Service (WPS). Currently the TMC messages in OpenRouteService.org are only available for Bavaria and NorthRhine-Westfalia and displayed on top of the map, but we are working on a larger regional extent. |
| 3D Smoke Emission Simulation based on OGC standards - Friday July, 25th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 As a showcase for demonstrating the potential of applying the OGC Web Processing Service (WPS) standard as a means to integrate the results from 3D simulations into applications based a 3D geospatial data infrastructure (www.gdi-3d.de), we integrated a very simplified 3D smoke emission simulation. The simulation does not mean to provide a realistic result currently (it is not a physical model!). It only shall demonstrate the potential of using of the OpenGIS WPS in a 3D environment. The WPS caclulating the 3D simulation gets as input the location of the origin of the smoke emission and then dynamically queries a OGC Sensor Observation Service (SOS) for the current speed and direction of the wind. Based on this the WPS calculates a simplified 3D object that is returned and visualized in the 3D viewer. The 3D spatial data infrastructure has been built on several OpenGIS Web Services (OWS) such as WMS, WFS, WPS, OpenLS, SOS and of course the Web 3D Service (W3DS).
A live demonstration is available at www.heidelberg-3d.de. |
| Calculating Evacuation Schemes with our OpenLS Route Service - Monday July, 21th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 Our OpenLS Route Service is being used for calculating evacuation schemes in the case of flooding. The Route Service has been integrated as a service into the open source hydrological flood modeling framework "Kalypso" through a collaboration with Björnsen Consulting GmbH within the BMBF projects RIMAX and OK-GIS. There it has been used to calculate evacuation schemes for simulated flooding scenarios for the city of Hamburg based on the street network by Teleatlas. The image from our conference publication shows a screenshots from the reuslts displayed in Kalypso. |
| Indoor-Routing by OpenRouteService.org is 'image of the week' - Thursday July, 10th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 An image generated by OpenRouteService.org showing the possibility to also do indoor routing with OpenRouteService.org is "image of the week" at the OpenStreetMap.org Wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page this week. This shows the potential of OpenRouteService.org for a range of innovative applications.
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| OpenRouteService.org supports spatial search for points of interest... - Tuesday July, 8th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| ...through OpenLS Directory Service based on OpenStreetMap data. Searching for specific locations such as hotels, restaurants, ATM machines or toilets is the typical application for location based services (LBS). For that purpose the OGC has introduced the OpenLS directory service specification. OpenRouteService.org supports now this interface for searching a wide range of points of interest (POIs) wihtin a given distance from any location, based on the user-generated content of [[ http://www.OpenStreetMap.org ]]. Further enhancements of OpenRouteService.org include the download of calculated routes as GPX files and extended route instructions for Germany and English (indicated by a *). Objects that intersect the route such as traffic lights or (small) roundabouts are now mentioned in the instruction. |
| Heidelberg 3D goes online... - Thursday July, 3rd 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
...based on OpenGIS Web 3D Service (W3DS) and the XNavigator 3D Viewer The whole City of Heidelberg is now accessible in 3D on the Web, using a Web 3D Service that has been implemented based on the OGC W3DS discussion paper. The data includes almost 40.000 buildings, partly with roofs and textures or even detailed geometries for the building facades. It includes also a high resolution digital elevantion model (5 meters) that has been re-processed for generating flat streets and several level of details. Also street furnitures, monuments, fountains etc. have been added based on CAD models or terrestrial laser scans. This extensive model can be explored through our XNavigator 3D Viewer, that communicates with the W3DS using mechanisms such as streaming, compression or optional encryption etc. The XNavigator is a Java
WebStart application that will be installed following this link Please make sure that your computer meets the system requirements for 3D
visualizaion and you might read the user manual for an overview of the
features available. For example you can use our OpenLS Route Service of
define your own visual style for the 3D map. Please send us your comments! (
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| MoNa 3D becomes project of the month - Thursday July, 3rd 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
 MoNa 3D is being presented on the website of the German ministry for research and education (BMBF) as the project of the month july 2008. MoNa 3D is a cooperation of the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
and Mainz University of Applied Siences with industrie partners GTA Geoinformatik GmbH, Heidelberg Mobil GmbH, Navigon AG and parts of the Atlas Deutschland GmbH.
The focus of research is on the development of a next generation navigation system for urban spaces based on
landmarks and 3D representation.
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| Podiumsdiskussion Web 2.0 - Monday June, 30th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| Mit offenen Plattformen über individuelle Partizipation zum Social Geo-Web Die rasanten neuen technologischen Entwicklungen im Bereich Web 2.0 haben auch die Geoinformationsbranche erfasst. Wikis, Web-Services oder Social Networking bieten dabei völlig neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit und Kommunikation und eine spannende Entwicklungsplattform für innovative Geoinformationsanwendungen. Im Rahmen der AGIT 2008 (2.-4.Juli) veranstaltet der Österreichische Dachverband für Geographische Information (AGEO) zu diesem Thema eine Podiumsdiskussion, um hier gemeinsam mit ExpertInnen und dem Fachpublikum die aktuellen Trends sowie Chancen und Risiken für die Geoinformationsbranche zu diskutieren. Die Moderation übernimmt Prof. Alexander Zipf (Universität Bonn). Die öffentlich zugängliche Veranstaltung findet am Freitag, 4.Juli 2008 um 14:00h im Rahmen der AGIT 2008 in Salzburg statt. http://www.agit.at |
| First Germany wide Bike-Routing - Monday June, 30th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
| First Germany wide Bike-Routing based on open standards and data online
www.OpenRouteService.org (ORS) offers not only pedestrian and fastest
and shortes routing based on the OpenGIS Open Location Service
specifications (OpenLS), but utilizes now also the user-generated data
from OpenStreetMap (OSM) for bicycle routing for the whole of Germany.
The OpenStreetMap data needs to be preprocessed in order to calculate a
topological network valid for routing. This processing generates
currently about 2 million street segements for Germany. Further extensions are in work and planned. We are interested in your feedback! |
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| First Germany wide Accssibility Analysis online - Monday June, 9th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
| www.OpenRouteService.org now offers also the possibility to calculate
the region that can be reached within a given period of time from any
given point in Germany. The calculation is performed based on our "Accessibility Analysis Service (AAS)" using the topological street network that has been generated from free
OpenStreetMaps data. Further OpenRouteservice now also supports the OGC OpenLS Utility Service (GeocCoder) and uses it for "search"-ing for names of places, streets etc. and zooming to the found place. |
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| New video on "3D Focus Maps" - Monday June, 9th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
Different visual styles are dynamically applied to the buildings accoring to the distance to the route calculated by our OpenLS Route Service. Further high-resolution screencapture-videos on interaction with Heidelberg-3D (OGC W3DS client-server) are online at http://www.gdi-3d.de |
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| Flood of 1994 has been integrated in Heidelberg-3D - Monday June, 9th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
Watch the video high-resolution screencapture-videos on interaction with our OGC W3DS client-server in this scenario.
Further videos are online at http://www.gdi-3d.de |
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| Research Group Zipf mentioned in Spiegel magazine - Monday May, 26th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
www.OpenRouteService.org is mentioned in the current issue of the German news magazine GEOGRAFIE: Die Vermessung der Welt - Tausende Freiwillige schaffen im Internet einen globalen Stadtplan (available free of charge) |
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| Support of Google Earth KML - Thursday May, 22th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
Our Web3D Service now also supports export to Google Earth KML
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| Invited Talk at OGC TC Meeting - Thursday May, 22th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| Invited talk by Prof. Zipf at the OGC Technical Comitee Meeting at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) in Potsdam (Plenary session) on integrating 3D, processing and navigation services. |
| Heidelberg 3D supports aerial photographs now! - Thursday May, 22th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
Support for aerial photographs in the 3D model of the city of Heidelberg is available. For further information see the project's website.
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| Germany - Wide Pedestrian Route Service - Wednesday May, 21th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
First Germany wide pedestrian route service (including steps, overpasses, as mapped by OpenStreetMap) is online:
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| 3D SLD Symbology Editor has been integrated in XNavigator - Friday May, 17th 2008 - Alexander Zipf | |
Now you can define the look of 3D city models dynamically from the client side
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| Visit and talk by Dr. M. Faust and Hidir Aras - Friday May, 17th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| from Digitale Medien, University of Bremen, in our internal colloqium. |
| Visit and talk by Dr. Kai-Florian Richter Friday May, 17th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| from SFB Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, in our internal colloqium |
| Presentation by our team member Michael Bauer - Friday May, 17th 2008 - Alexander Zipf |
| at the Symposium "Kultur und Informatik - Informationssysteme" |