The online community platform for pedestrians is online. Research Group Cartography is involved in the project as a consultant.
Go check it out: wildurb.at [German]
CartoTalk Muki Haklay
We are happy to welcome Muki Haklay of the University College London (UCL) to our colloquium CartoTalks:
Volunteered Geographic Information –
Overview, Quality and Contributors Behaviour
Over the past 5 years a new phenomenon emerged in the area of geographical information. This is the contribution of digital geographical information by non-professional contributors. The information that can be collected through this method ranges from georeferenced photographs to observations that are taken in different parts of the world and to detailed mapping activities. This user-contributed geographical information was termed Volunteered Geographical Information by Goodchild (2007).
In the talk, the background to this phenomenon will be covered, pointing to the technical and societal changes that enable it. Following this overview the issue of data quality and how to evaluate it, will be discussed. Finally the behaviour of participants and their motivation will be covered.
Examples from Flickr, OpenStreetMap and Google Map Maker will be used to illustrate the various aspects of VGI and to highlight that there is a rich seam of empirical data, both quantitative and qualitative, that can be used in VGI research.
Friday, October 8 2010, 10 am
Seminar room 126
Research Group Cartography
Erzherzog-Johann-Platz 1, 1040 Wien
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Bericht über Alexandra Millonig im Standard
Der Standard brachte einen Bericht über unsere Dissertantin Alexandra Millonig: Verkehrsverhalten messbar machen.
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LVA-Verschiebungen im Studienjahr 2011/2012
Die Forschungsgruppe Kartographie plant, ab dem Studienjahr 2011/2012 an einem internationalen Masterstudiengang in Kartographie teilzunehmen. Dadurch wird es notwendig werden, einige Lehrveranstaltungen vom Wintersemester in das Sommersemester zu verschieben. Da dies für einige Studierende bereits in der Studienplanung für das Studienjahr 2010/2011 relevant sein könnte, sind die geplanten Änderungen hier angeführt.
Die folgenden Lehrveranstaltungen werden ab dem Studienjahr 2011/2012 nicht mehr im Winter- sondern im Sommersemester angeboten:
- VO Theoretische Kartographie
- VU Geomedientechnik
- VU Kartenredaktion und kartographisches Projektmanagement
- PR Projekt Kartenerstellung
Änderungen vorbehalten!
Courses of WS 2010/2011 are online
Courses of WS 2010/2011 are online in the teaching section.
WebMapping Workshops in Southeast Asia
The ICA Commission on Education and Training organized two Workshops on Cartography in Southeast Asia. They took place between July 26 and August 6, 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam as well as in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Our colleague Manuela Schmidt was one of the presenters: together with William Cartwright, president of the ICA, she held a 5-day workshop about WebMapping in both cities.
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KinderUni 2010
This year our research group is involved in KinderUni Technik (University for Children) with 4 lectures:
- Mika: Weißt du, wo du bist?
- Eszter: Kennst du die Geographie von Österreich?
- Eszter und Klaus: Kennst du das umweltbewusste, lebenswerte Wien?
Bericht der Rathauskorrespondenz - Eszter, Jan and Felix: Muss ein Globus rund sein?
Watch the photos of our lectures here!
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Results of the courses in SS 2010
Selected results of our students’ work in SS 2010. Have a nice summer!
- Location Based Services [tuwis]
- MyTrip [report pdf]
- WaveGuide [report pdf]
- Mapping of Tweets [presentation pdf] [report pdf]
- Identification of relevant context parameters [report pdf]
- Seminar für Geoinformation und Kartographie [tuwis]
- Harmonisation of Geodata [presentation pdf] [report pdf]
- Seminar Geowissenschaften/Kartographie [tuwis]
- Derivation of Topographic maps from Laser Scanning Data [presentation pdf]
- Mulimedia-Kartographie und Geokommunikation [tuwis]
- Kartographische Informationssysteme [tuwis]
- Exkursionsbericht [report 1, report 2, report 3]
- KIS-Bewertung [Tirol Atlas, Physicians of Vienna, WorldAtlas.com, OpenStreetMap-BingMaps Vergleich, GoogleMaps-AnachB Vergleich]
- MapServer-Projekt [GeoRSS Reader, Weinstraßen der Südsteiermark, Spielorte der Fussball-WM 2010 Südafrika, A Travel Guide to 5 Top Cities of Sweden, Tourismus – Leithaprodersdorf, Gemeinde im Burgenland in Österreich]
Photos of our field course 2010 are online
Check out how hard our students were working in the fields.
CartoTalk by Beata Medynska-Gulij
Beata Medynska-Gulij from the Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Poland gave a CartoTalk on 21 June 2010 on the topic of Kartenmacher und Kartennutzer – kartographische Gestaltung als Rollenspiel in drei Aufzügen.
Please find the abstract in the invitation pdf.
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