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The Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) and Olympic Shipping and Management SA (OSM) have signed an impact partnership agreement, committing to a five-year collaboration to accelerate shipping decarbonisation across geographies. “Onassis Foundation-controlled OSM is the first Greek ship owner and manager to come onboard GCMD as a centre-level partner,” says a release from GCMD. “OSM’s current fleet comprises 18 crude oil tankers. As an impact partner, OSM will provide a cash contribution towards pooled resources for GCMD’s projects as well as in-kind contributions in terms of technical expertise and data and access to hard assets in support of GCMD’s existing trials on drop-in green fuels and shipboard carbon capture and new pilots in the pipeline.”

How boring, manual and prone to errors is GIS layers digitizing. Points of Interest (POI), roads or buildings are three very useful vector maps examples used in many applications such as map visualization, logistics, disaster management, marketing, sales and many others. However, creating these layers is a time consuming task…

If you’re on the job market or know someone who is, check out this exciting new opening at GIScience. The offer is included as text below! You are interested in enhancing methods for analyzing & improving OpenStreetMap data? You are an experienced Spatial Data Scientist innovating geoinformatics methods & workflows? You have profound hands-on experience […]

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, 0.6, 0.7, and all the other small improvements to our historical OpenStreetMap database as the […]

Problem Undoubtedly, Google Maps is a great library to visualize maps in our mobile application for Android & iOS or maybe Web App. But when it comes to flutter app development Google Maps provide all the functionalities but with a lack of platform support for Mac OS (OSX), Windows, and Linux. …

Creating tools to map and navigate the urban (and not-so-urban) jungle has been a specialty of the HeiGIT and GIScience teams since their founding. We’ve plotted our way to the closest park through meinGrün, fostered awareness of barriers for limited-mobility travelers with CAP4Access, and helped find shortcuts through the unprecedented heat with HEAL. The latest […]

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 our series, like this or this one coverinh the various ways of accessing ohsome API. And now to our current […]