University of Heidelberg GIScience (Geoinformatics) Research Group

The University of Heidelberg GIScience (Geoinformatics) Research Group (Chair Prof. Alexander Zipf) is the creator of several OpenStreetMap based tools and services. The group cooperates closely with the HeiGIT, a non-profit research institute located in Heidelberg.

Together with HeiGIT, the research group created several tools:

• OpenRouteService
  • available since early 2008!
  • pedestrian, bicycle and car routing etc.
  • POI search
  • geocoding and reverse geocoding
  • Accessibility Analysis Service (isochrones)
• ohsome platform
  • OSHDB (Java API)
  • ohsome API (HTTP REST API)
  • ohsomeHeX
  • ohsome Dashboard
  • ohsome quality analyst
• OSM-3D
• OSM-WMS-EUROPE
• IndoorOSM
• DE:Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing and "Ruhr2010 Barrierefrei"; http://www.rollstuhlrouting.de
• OSMatrix([1])
• HistOSM ([2])
• Quality evaluation of OSM
• AgroRouting (Landmaschinen-Routing)
• Haiti Earthquake Emergency Routing http://openls.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/osm-haiti/

We organized and hosted FOSSGIS 2011 and the State of the Map 2019 in Heidelberg.

Address

Research Group GIScience (Geoinformatics)
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf
Department of Geography
University of Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
https://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis
zipf@uni-heidelberg.de